Draytek Vigor 120 disconnecting every hour
I've been reading up on both pfSense and Smoothwall again and I think I'm leaning towards the latter.
It's simple, like me
Also, I had it working before but as it turns out the problems at the time were due to my old V120. Now that's replaced everything should be fine.
All I need to do is get the scrabble board out for the rest of the family and set aside half a day to do it all - after planning everything of course.
Rotty
It's simple, like me
Also, I had it working before but as it turns out the problems at the time were due to my old V120. Now that's replaced everything should be fine.
All I need to do is get the scrabble board out for the rest of the family and set aside half a day to do it all - after planning everything of course.
Rotty
Quote from: rotty It's simple, like me
As your V120 is working and your 2130 is working, have you thought about dumping the dedicated firewall?
As far as I can see, plugging the V120 into the 2130's WAN port would be the simplest method of provisioning your requirements.
Quote All I need to do is get the scrabble board out for the rest of the family and set aside half a day to do it all - after planning everything of course.
LOL. I can assure you my typical small business customer is no less intolerant of down time...Or paying an out of hours premium for that matter.
Make your mistakes on paper, in slow time, never on the customer premises, is my motto
Quote As your V120 is working and your 2130 is working, have you thought about dumping the dedicated firewall?
As far as I can see, plugging the V120 into the 2130's WAN port would be the simplest method of provisioning your requirements.
Yes, in principle you're right, but.......
That's how I had the system for a number of days and was working perfectly before it went down.
The 2130n had lost it's settings again and I was unable to connect over either LAN or Wi-Fi.
Last time this happened I had to reflash the firmware. This particular 2130 has been back to Draytek twice and still has the fault.
However, I'm not too upset as last time it sent it back I demanded a refund, which I have now received, but then Draytek sent the router back as well saying it was fixed!
So you see it's not working nor does it technically belong to me - hence the new solution.
I'm expecting Draytek to ask for it back any day!
If my family are customers maybe I should charge my wife and children for the privalage of having their network fixed?!?
Quote from: rotty If my family are customers maybe I should charge my wife and children for the privalage of having their network fixed?!?
Good luck with that!
All working perfectly 
Got up early this morning and stripped down the whole system.
Made final adjustments to my network plan, took a note of all the MAC addreses and set IPs where required to my new 10.x.x.x scheme.
I'd re-installed Smoothwall the night before so all I had to do was plug it in and do the final config.
Within an hour had the basic network working over wi-fi.
Took a bit longer to setup the printers and NAS with all the port forwarding settings.
After a month of email and web servers up and down I finally have a reliable system - fingers crossed
So it was all caused by a faulty Draytek Vigor 120 modem, faulty Draytek 2130n router and a dodgy network cable.
Many thanks to everyone who suggested various things along the way
Special thanks to mssystems for suggesting I make a plan and take a methodical approach.
Now the sun is shining so I'm going to have a beer or three to celebrate.
Then going out tonight with Mrs Rotty for a slap-up meal to celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary.
Rotty
P.S. The family are refusing to pay up!
Got up early this morning and stripped down the whole system.
Made final adjustments to my network plan, took a note of all the MAC addreses and set IPs where required to my new 10.x.x.x scheme.
I'd re-installed Smoothwall the night before so all I had to do was plug it in and do the final config.
Within an hour had the basic network working over wi-fi.
Took a bit longer to setup the printers and NAS with all the port forwarding settings.
After a month of email and web servers up and down I finally have a reliable system - fingers crossed
So it was all caused by a faulty Draytek Vigor 120 modem, faulty Draytek 2130n router and a dodgy network cable.
Many thanks to everyone who suggested various things along the way
Special thanks to mssystems for suggesting I make a plan and take a methodical approach.
Now the sun is shining so I'm going to have a beer or three to celebrate.
Then going out tonight with Mrs Rotty for a slap-up meal to celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary.
Rotty
P.S. The family are refusing to pay up!
Glad to hear you got it all working.
You were rather unlucky to experience simultaneous hardware faults. You might want to think about fitting a surge supressor on the plug socket your modem is plugged into.
I have had some issues with Draytek kit at the cheaper end of the price list but it's all been firmware. Missing features, not behaving as documented, that sort of thing.
If you are ever drawn down the single box route again, I would recommend the DrayTek 2820. I am current trying out a 2830, which is very good but lacks a 1:1 NAT mapping feature.
For everything else, there is IPTABLES
Hope the anniversary went well.
You were rather unlucky to experience simultaneous hardware faults. You might want to think about fitting a surge supressor on the plug socket your modem is plugged into.
I have had some issues with Draytek kit at the cheaper end of the price list but it's all been firmware. Missing features, not behaving as documented, that sort of thing.
If you are ever drawn down the single box route again, I would recommend the DrayTek 2820. I am current trying out a 2830, which is very good but lacks a 1:1 NAT mapping feature.
For everything else, there is IPTABLES
Hope the anniversary went well.
Had a fantastic meal with Mrs Rotty - thanks mssystems.
But my unlucky streak wasn't finished!!!!
The system had been running for a day and a half no problems, then just as I was watching the end of the Canadian Grand Prix my yougest son announced "The Internet's gone off!!".
I fired up my laptop - no wireless, so I went to my WinXP desktop that's wired via the switch to the smoothie green network. The LAN appeared to be down!!
Next I plugged my laptop into green socket on the back of the Smoothie PC - all showed as fine.
I'd noticed earlier that the poor little Belkin 8-port switch was running a bit warm so I checked and it was very hot. I unplugged it and has a sniff - oh the sweet smell of toasted silicon!!!
Luckily I had a spare Netgear 4-porter so I substitited it and all up and running fine again.
Just no printer connectivity over LAN, so I setup one of them on wireless.
However, all this meant I missed Jenson overtaking and winning the grand prix
Went to PC-World first thing this morning a bought a 16-port Netgear 10/100/1000Mb switch.
I was using 7 of the 8-ports of the Belkin and it was obviously too much for it!!!
I trust Netgear, certainly for wired stuff anyway.
Hopefully, that's the last of it!!
P.S. I've setup my spare TG585v8 in PPPoE bridge mode, so if the V120 goes screwy I have a replacement. Many thanks to Matt for supplying the tcl file.
But my unlucky streak wasn't finished!!!!
The system had been running for a day and a half no problems, then just as I was watching the end of the Canadian Grand Prix my yougest son announced "The Internet's gone off!!".
I fired up my laptop - no wireless, so I went to my WinXP desktop that's wired via the switch to the smoothie green network. The LAN appeared to be down!!
Next I plugged my laptop into green socket on the back of the Smoothie PC - all showed as fine.
I'd noticed earlier that the poor little Belkin 8-port switch was running a bit warm so I checked and it was very hot. I unplugged it and has a sniff - oh the sweet smell of toasted silicon!!!
Luckily I had a spare Netgear 4-porter so I substitited it and all up and running fine again.
Just no printer connectivity over LAN, so I setup one of them on wireless.
However, all this meant I missed Jenson overtaking and winning the grand prix
Went to PC-World first thing this morning a bought a 16-port Netgear 10/100/1000Mb switch.
I was using 7 of the 8-ports of the Belkin and it was obviously too much for it!!!
I trust Netgear, certainly for wired stuff anyway.
Hopefully, that's the last of it!!
P.S. I've setup my spare TG585v8 in PPPoE bridge mode, so if the V120 goes screwy I have a replacement. Many thanks to Matt for supplying the tcl file.
Quote from: rotty However, all this meant I missed Jenson overtaking and winning the grand prix
Epic win! Or should that be fail?
Steve
Just installed the 16-port switch and have the V120 going through a surge suppressor socket adapter.
All my other equipment - switch, access point and PCs are all surge protected.
Should keep going for a few years now without any problems.
This last week has been fine.
Rotty
All my other equipment - switch, access point and PCs are all surge protected.
Should keep going for a few years now without any problems.
This last week has been fine.
Rotty