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    Frequent crash of pfSense 2.3.2 in last couple of weeks

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      CDuv
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      My v2.3.1 setup was running just fine (4.5 years now, started with v2.0.1) until August 2016 where I upgraded to v2.3.2.

      Since then I got multiple crashes (pfSense detects it, reboots, and offers to send it to developers) especially 3 in the last 24h.
      At first I thought that Snort was causing too much load but problem still occurs with Snort disabled.

      Once pfSense did not rebooted and stopped answering pings, this was displayed on physical terminal:

      4em1: discard frame w/o packet header

      Here are the running services:

      • darkstat (but disabled)

      • dhcpd

      • dpinger

      • ftp-proxy (but disabled)

      • ntpd

      • openvpn

      • sshd

      • unbound

      What metric could I check to see if problem is load-related?

      Here is last crash report.

      Setup is:
      Version: 2.3.2-RELEASE (i386) built on Tue Jul 19 13:09:39 CDT 2016 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p5
      CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz 2 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 1 core(s) x 2 HTT threads
      RAM: 3935 MiB

      Thanks

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        CDuv
        last edited by

        Forgot to say: server is a "Dell PowerEdge 750" with "em*" network cards (advertised as "Dual embedded Intel Gigabit NIC, Intel PRO/100S; Intel PRO/1000 MT; Intel
        PRO/ 1000MT Dual Port" in the PDF specs).

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