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      security_sharezone @stephenw10
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      I will definitely do it. my steps are

      1. wireguard down for two days and see if problem backup job
      2. change e1000

      I will give feedback. if a solution is found in the meantime I would be happy

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        security_sharezone @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10 in this moment 20 hours without reboot .
        wireguard is up but without backup running . low traffic transit .

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          security_sharezone @security_sharezone
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          @security_sharezone said in pfsense reboot randomly on vmware:

          @stephenw10

          one day up e running .. today night switch on e1000 network

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            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            Cool. One of our devs is digging into this. He may reach out to you with a diagnostic kernel.

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              security_sharezone @stephenw10
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              @stephenw10
              maximum availability to support you and the community

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                security_sharezone @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10

                i think that for 2 Days 14 Hours 08 Minutes 08 Seconds the firt point of step 1. ( wireguard down for two days and see if problem backup job ) is done
                today renable backup job and resubmit result . if crach disable vmxnet3 and enable e1000

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                  security_sharezone @stephenw10
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                  @stephenw10

                  system crashed after enable backup copy with vpn wireguard dump_1212_2023.txt

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                    security_sharezone @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10

                    another crash Crash report begins. Anonymous mac.txt

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                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      Hmm, interesting.

                      Are you able to upgrade to 2.7.2 and confirm it also happens there?

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                        security_sharezone @stephenw10
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                        @stephenw10

                        I performed update before re-enabling backup jobs

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                          security_sharezone @stephenw10
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                          @stephenw10
                          you thinh that is keepalive the problem ?

                          now for all vpn is set to 25 second

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                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                            It's shouldn't be. You should not be able to panic the kernel by changing the keep-alive time!

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                              security_sharezone @stephenw10
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                              @stephenw10
                              so far it has not rebooted I am waiting for tonight's backups . I will update you tomorrow morning

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                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                So that's using vmxnet3 NIC in pfSense 2.7.2 b ut with WireGuard disabled?

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                                  security_sharezone @stephenw10
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                                  @stephenw10 said in pfsense reboot randomly on vmware:

                                  So that's using vmxnet3 NIC in pfSense 2.7.2 b ut with WireGuard disabled?

                                  i use vmxnet3 NIC in pfSense 2.7.2 with #3 vpn WireGuard . only one vpn have traffic copy backup

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                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                    Ok great so WireGuard is still up but not passing traffic?

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                                      security_sharezone @stephenw10
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                                      @stephenw10 said in pfsense reboot randomly on vmware:

                                      Ok great so WireGuard is still up but not passing traffic?

                                      wireguard has always been active. traffic always goes to the remote point, but when I activate the backup that has the remote point as a second copy pfsense crashes

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                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                        Great we're trying to replicate it here.

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                                          security_sharezone @stephenw10
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                                          @stephenw10

                                          if desired we can make a wireguard vpn pfsense to my router and give you an nfs endpoint to simulate the backup repository and test traffic

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                                            marcosm Netgate
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                                            I was unable to make it panic. I set up a WireGuard tunnel between two 23.09.1 ESXi (7.0.3) VMs and tried to reproduce this in a couple ways. First with the iperf3 client/server on the firewalls themselves, then second with the iperf3 client/server on hosts behind the firewalls. Both were TCP tests, no NAT, which ran for over 8 hours each.

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