Traffic on Red interface is blocked

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I have recently installed IPFire update 188 on a LeNovo Thinkstation; the specifications comfortably exceed the minimum required. the Red interface uses the on-board NIC to connect to a Vodafone router with a fibre connection to the outside world; the Green interface uses a StarTech USB to ethernet adapter. The green interface is connected to a 16 port switch, which is also connected to my Linux workstation, my wife’s Windows 10 workstation, two printers and various wireless access points. I am able to access the admin interface of the IPFire box, and it shows a very small amount of traffic over the Red interface, but there is no usable connection to the outside world. Ping to the Vodafone router shows “Not reachable”. Before I installed IPFire I was using Smoothwall Express on an elderly low profile desktop PC and this worked fine. I had also been using a Dell mini PC running IPFire core update 185 with no problem, but when I updated to core update 186 I hit the problem of no internet access. The main motivator for using IPFire is to allow me to allocate fixed IP addresses to all the devices on the home network. Can anyone suggest an path to explore to deal with this frustration, please? Meanwhile I shall switch back to Smoothwall…

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Ian

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Is the Vodaphone also your optical network terminal?

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Yes - that cofiguration has been stable for the past year

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I have occasionally had issues with IPFire seeing my ISP after network outages have been resolved. What seems to work for me in those situations is to turn both the modem and IPFire off. Then I turn the modem on, wait for it to get to a ready state, then turn IPFire on. So maybe try a similar approach? I am guessing your Vodaphone is equivalent to my cable modem.

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Thanks, Tim, I’ll give that approach a trial run and let you know how I get on