Bug #5273
closed
UMTS / 3G Connection reports wrong Gateway information (10.64.64.0) and no data is going through that connection.
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Description
Hello Pfsense team,
first of all thanks for all the work you put into PFsense. I am using it since 5 years now and am very happy in general.
However I rebuilt my PFsense to be a 2.2.4 release the weekend. With this I wanted to reactivate my UMTS / 3G failover because I had a downtime recently. Everything (the setup itself) worked as I was familiar with from 2.0.3 days.
I am using an Huawei E220 UMTS stick which gets recognized and I also can dial in through PPP.
I was testing the failover but could not get any data over this connection. On the gateway monitor page I can see the following information:
Name Gateway Monitor Status Description
WAN 10.64.64.0 10.64.64.0 Offline Interface WAN Dynamic Gateway
Tried to find a solution in the WWW but stumbled only over this:
https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/919
With 2.0.3 (and maybe also 2.1) it was working like a charme and using the UMTS stick for himself on a Windows machine also works as expected.
Hope you can fix this.
Thanks a lot.
Thomas
Files
| Dial-In_on_Mac.png (20.6 KB) Dial-In_on_Mac.png | On the MAC I get correct GW Information through the connection. | ||
| Disconnected_UMTS.png (33.4 KB) Disconnected_UMTS.png | Disconnected | ||
| Connected_UMTS_with_no_GW_in_PPP.png (64.1 KB) Connected_UMTS_with_no_GW_in_PPP.png | Connected 3G with NO GW defined in PPP Connection -> 10.64.64.0 | ||
| Cell-SIM-State_locked.png (9.09 KB) Cell-SIM-State_locked.png | Cell / SIM State report. Why locked? No SIM-Lock on SIM. | ||
| ppp.log (6.69 KB) ppp.log | PPP Log without manually configured GW and with correct GW manually configured. |
Updated by Chris Buechler about 9 years ago
- Status changed from New to Feedback
10.64.64.0 is what gets filled in if you don't have a gateway obtained from PPP. I'm guessing it's actually failing to connect for some reason. What do your PPP logs show?
Updated by Thomas Burger about 9 years ago
- File Dial-In_on_Mac.png Dial-In_on_Mac.png added
- File Disconnected_UMTS.png Disconnected_UMTS.png added
- File Connected_UMTS_with_no_GW_in_PPP.png Connected_UMTS_with_no_GW_in_PPP.png added
- File Cell-SIM-State_locked.png Cell-SIM-State_locked.png added
- File ppp.log ppp.log added
Hello Chris,
thanks for your fast answer. I finally got time to work on this.
Checked the UMTS stick first on another Windows Box -> gets gateway assigned with 10.64.64.64. This is the same on my Macbook. UMTS connection works fine in both cases.
However on the Pfsense box it still has 10.64.64.0 as gateway. If this is a value automatically filled in on "no gateway" this is a bit confusing from an end user perspective.
I manually entered 10.64.64.64 as a gateway and it seems that I could manually route traffic through that interface by disabling my WAN interface completely. I have not accomplished the automatic failover yet (for whatever reason my box just tries to route traffic through the WAN interface).
In the PPP log attached the 10.64.64.64 shows up (around 08:00), however I did not know if this is due to my manual configuration so I made another test.
Interestingly I could not dial in a second time. After a reboot it worked but the PPP log shows the 10.64.64.0.
What confuses me a little is the fact that PFsense reports "Invalid SIM/locked State" in the interface status. The SIM has no SIM-Lock. I removed it for that purpose. Is this expected?
Thanks for your help.
Best regards
Thomas
Updated by Thomas Burger about 9 years ago
Hello Chris, hello PFSense-Team,
I was not able to get it to work as it should. I decided to move to an old LTE-Router and using simple standard IP-addresses to connect to this as a gateway. Now all works as expected. Will get rid of my UMTS stick now as it is not longer needed.
Best regards
Thomas
Updated by Chris Buechler almost 9 years ago
- Status changed from Feedback to Closed
something specific to that card, no apparent problems in our code here.