has this issue come up with the new freebsd version or is it pfsense related?

@meelis:

Console filled up this messages, "kernel: Bump sched buckets to 64 (was 0)" ?

Feel free to search the forums.  This question has been answered several times before.

Cheers
Jon

JimP has reverted the 22 Sep change for now. So the problem should go away in the next snapshot.

Hmm, it's the sort of thing I usually just make up as i go along!
There is a how to about installing nano to USB here:
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Soekris_6501_USB_Flash_installation#Root_Mount_error
In that though the mountroot error has a different cause. It's been a while since I tried this.  :-\

When you boot the first time if it fails to the mountroot> prompt enter '?' to get a list of root locations. If you get no choices add the boot delay as described. If it gives you daxxxxx enter that.

Steve

@dhatz:

As a test, I'm currently running ntpd with the following two lines added:

If you are trying to run ntpd isolated you should use "orphan mode" in this version of ntpd.

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/orphan.html

Never mind.

Found my answer here…

This condition is not specific to a Live CD Boot.  It also occurs on a full installed boot.

Have discovered that using a shell command in the config to set the parent (real) NIC MAC rather than setting a "spoofed" MAC on the VLAN'd WAN interface may be a workaround, since for this particular installation the WAN need a particular MAC and LAN MAC can be anything.  Better than enabling promiscuous mode anyway.  Which will fill the firewall log with all the traffic seen on the interface.  May as well be capture.

Example:
<system><shellcmd>ifconfig bfe0 ether 00:35:c7:7e:5d:db</shellcmd>
…</system>

basically i need the lan and wlan be bridged and lan give out ip using dhcp but be able to use captive portal on the same so the wired as well as wireless clients get captive portal page without me having to enable dhcp on anything else other than lan

alos bring to notice i got a error when assigning bridge port to opt1 causing the save button to disappear but it still add the itnerface etc

well its possible your seeing traffic from some some weird IP – Do a sniff, what upnp packets are you seeing when it logs that?

Is it possible your listening on some other interface other than your lan?

net6501 is excellent - I have one at home running my network and it has yet to let me down in any way.

So "sysctl hw.acpi.battery.life" has been returning "-1" for quite a few version of Beta0 now. Sorry to say I didn't notice when exactly. Any ideas on what broke?

no1 else tried this?

@verticalio:

The only bit I don't like on this new version are the menus, the indentation on hover is rather annoying.

Me too, but I got used to it after a few days :-)

solved, but it needs to be deleted in this order:

virtual servers
pools
monitors

Glad you found the issue. As I said above, in rare circumstances, rewriting the source port on RTP will cause one way audio. The vast majority of the time, that's fine.

@SunCatalyst:

we had 40-50 routers running 2.1-snapshots in production here.
my boss had me ask the question one last time to figure out what
we were doing.

i had talked my boss into getting approval (and we did) to donate $100k
to the pfsense project…. unfornately when my boss realized that we wont
see integration of unbound into 2.1 , he pulled the plug on sending the check he was about
to mail and ordered  ALL brand new cisco hardward to replace the pfsense boxes that have
been rock solid.

LOL and I thought I had heard (read) it all !!!

I had switched back to my Alix machine after my last posting and left the case of my Jetway machine open to be ready for further testing. After almost two weeks without further activity in this thread I've decided to live without a working serial console. Yesterday I switched back to the Jetway box to get more experience about stability based on a long term usage when I suddenly saw new responses.

Next step would be to load a plain FreeBSD install on there and see if you can get the serial console to work. If it doesn't work on a stock FreeBSD install either, you can then file a PR with FreeBSD to see if it can be fixed upstream.

Just to get the above information right: Would it be helpful to install FreeBSD on the Jetway machine or did you more address the D2500CC board? Which version of FreeBDS should be used - I assume 9.0, although pfSense 2.1 is based on 8.3. Or do you even think of 8.1? To minimize testing efforts I would like to leave my current 2.0.1_nanobsd_vga install on a 8GB SSD untouched and test FreeBSD on a regular harddisk. Unfortunately, I currently don't have one left, but could get one organized within some days. I've no experience with stock FreeBSD so far but a quick check of its homepage revealed that installation should not differ that much from a full pfSense install. Could you please explain in more detail what you mean with

… you can then file a PR with FreeBSD to see if it can be fixed upstream

May be it' worth to mention that the serial console works without problems with Linux on this board: Grub2 can be remotely controlled over the serial line, kernel messages are being emitted to it and finally init starts agetty for serial logins.

Peter

I got this too on the Dashboard.