Feature #14976
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Cleaner way to know if an interface failed
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Description
When an interface status changes from UP to DOWN or is flapping, there are other syslog messages that get generated because of it, such as packages restarting and dpinger restarting interfaces, etc.. This makes finding root cause very difficult as one has to shift through the noise as i recently had to do.
See forum post here: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/184059/random-disconnect/12?_=1699889265804
Request: Maybe have Kernel messages in a separate tab in the System > Logs menu. Or maybe just have some method in the GUI to indicate that a link did flap - some notification.
Juniper Networks keeps a timer counter of when the link last flapped when a 'show interface' command is given. This is helpful in knowing when a link issue occurred.
Updated by dylan mendez 2 months ago
While out development team considers this, you can implement Remote Syslogs and filter all the logs through a third-party syslog server. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/monitoring/logs/remote.html