Oh interesting, finally someone with the same problem!
A couple of tips that might help you:
.- PPPoE and sticky connections are not friends before pfsense 2.0, you shouln't use them
.- To get the version the best place is to go to Status -> System , in there you can see the version with build time.
.- Update to 1.2.3, this version seems to solve a lot of issues, not mine but even tough.
Finally, I would like to know what hardware are you using (board + network interfaces)
Cheers
Hi,
Sorry for the delay in answer I was extremely busy in last few weeks and completely forgot about this post.
Anyway I have made some more testing regarding this issue and here what I managed to learn:
Switching WAN from PPPoE to Static helps a little bit - interface are not dropped so often - however ramdom downtimes for 10 sec. are still occuring approx. once every 2 days
I did not test it with 1.2.3 version - and to be honest I do not really have a time at the moment. Changing router config was quicker :-D
Regarding HW - here is my hardware profile:
Dell PowerEdge sc 440 (dual-core pentium x86_64)
motherboard - dell branded for this server model
NICs - 5 x BROADCOM 5721 GIGABIT ETHERNET ADAPTER