My Pfsense has crashed
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@stephenw10 This is the first time i see this crash.
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Or any crash?
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@stephenw10 Maybe two or three months ago my Pfsense crashed (for the first time) and i believed it was because i had configured an additional Openvpn instance but with TCP 443 (i currently have two Openvpn instances, one with UDP 443 and the other with TCP 443) i mostly use UDP and have the TCP as a backup. My Pfsense web management is on a different port.
i was hoping the crash report would point out the cause of the crash. i am going to do some trial-and-error, first by replacing the SSD and then disabling the Openvpn TCP instance.
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Hmm, unfortunately it doesn't point to anything specific.
We saw the same thing here: https://forum.netgate.com/post/931240
But in a much older version which makes it look like a more general problem, like bad RAM perhaps. -
@stephenw10 The first time Pfsense crashed two or three months ago, i ran the Dell's diagnostic and it found no errors on the RAM. Then at around three days before the second Pfsense crash, out of curiosity i ran a Memtest86 and it did not find any errors on the RAM either. I don't mind replacing the RAM and is one of the items in my trial-and-error list. i have replaced the SSD at this point.
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Do you know if the crashes were all identical? Probably not RAM if they were.
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@stephenw10 i did not pay much attention to the crash report during the first crash so i cannot say for sure if the second crash is identical to the first. But, i was using Openvpn TCP 443 when the first crash happened and i was using Openvpn UDP 443 when the second crash happened. i am waiting to see if Pfsense crashes again after replacing the SSD, if it does, i will start digging into the Openvpn settings.
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I'd be surprised if it's anything to do with OpenVPN to be honest. Both times we saw it it appeared to be in php.
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@stephenw10 if it is a php issue, could it also be related to hardware?
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Unlikely IMO. Hardware errors are usually more random.
