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WAN interface showing Link Error.

Hi everyone,

First of all, i have been reading a lot on this forum about this topic, but none really fit my situation and i have not found any good solution for my problem. My situation is actually really simple in the way it's set op. Most things i read here has to do with multiple NICs and/or link balancing. However my setup is [ISP Modem]--[ESX Server with the hardware onboard nic directly connected to the Sophos VM]. This setup worked for ages just fine, but out of nowhere last night somewhere the "internet' stopped working and this morning i saw the dashboard is showing a link error while nothing has been changed on my side. 

I have attached a laptop directly to the ISP modem, and then it seems to work and internet is working, but connecting my UTM to it shows the error, even after a reboot of the UTM. I have also rebooted the ISP modem. I don't see anything wierd in the logs, the UTM is getting an IP from the ISP's DHCP server. 

I have tried changing the NIC in the ESX server from Static speed to Auto Neg. This did not change anything. So, im actually stuck right now. Considering i did not change anything myself, i would say something on the ISP end must have changed, however, why would the windows laptop work? Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

 Peter



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  • Hoi,

    What if you just change the MTU back to 1500?

    Cheers - Bob

     
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  • Hi Bob, very good idea, that‘s worth testing.

    But shouldn’t the minimum of 576 bytes work in all cases?

    Mit freundlichem Gruß, best regards from Germany,

    Philipp Rusch

    New Vision GmbH, Germany
    Sophos Silver-Partner

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  • Hi Bob, very good idea, that‘s worth testing.

    But shouldn’t the minimum of 576 bytes work in all cases?

    Mit freundlichem Gruß, best regards from Germany,

    Philipp Rusch

    New Vision GmbH, Germany
    Sophos Silver-Partner

    If a post solves your question please use the 'Verify Answer' button.

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  • Several years ago, a lot of people had strange problems with their ISP's network assigning the External interface an MTU of 576.  Just setting it manually to 1500 was the solution.  In this case, if making the setting in the UTM doesn't resolve this, I will wonder if there's not an issue with the configuration of VMWare or the vm.

    Cheers - Bob

     
    Sophos UTM Community Moderator
    Sophos Certified Architect - UTM
    Sophos Certified Engineer - XG
    Gold Solution Partner since 2005
    MediaSoft, Inc. USA