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    Random kernel panic and restart on 2.7.2

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Yeah, that seems likely from that backtrace. If it always happens ai less than 12hrs that should be easy enough to test.

      I've never been able to replicate that panic locally which means it's far more difficult to pin down.

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        EdoFede
        last edited by EdoFede

        Pretty frequent, so I think we'll know by tomorrow โ˜บ

        Feb 8 17:36:18	root	26063	Bootup complete
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          carter69
          last edited by

          I am curious as to what I can search through / look for in my crash dumps as I have been crashing pretty regularly on 2.7.2 to see if this is similar. Or what files would someone like to view ?

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by stephenw10

            The most telling line in the backtrace is probably: ip6_output()
            Though that doesn't always appear as you can see in the bug report where is happens on ppp links.

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              EdoFede
              last edited by

              Uptime: 15h 44m ๐Ÿ˜Š

              I'll keep an eye on it today too, but it seems that disabling IPv6 subnet tunneling solved the problem, so it's probably the same anomaly.

              Do you know if there is a planned fix for this problem also on pfSense CE?

              As a workaround on my specific problem, I could try to restore that routing on OpenVPN tunnels as before (which had never given this problem), but it would be nice if it were solved.

              Thanks,
              Edoardo

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                @EdoFede said in Random kernel panic and restart on 2.7.2:

                I could try to restore that routing on OpenVPN tunnels as before

                That would be a good test. I would expect both VPN types to go down at the same time so IPv6 sessions over both should behave similarly. So if it doesn't panic over OpenVPN then it's handling that differently which could be a clue.

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                  EdoFede
                  last edited by

                  I'm trying to replicate the setup of IPv6 routing on OpenVPN, but something doesn't work as expected.
                  I'm not doing the exact same way as before (that worked...both IPv4 and IPv6 tunneling) because I've already setted up IPv4 over IPSec + BGP for this site and don't want to brake the whole setup.

                  I'm trying to route only IPv6 traffic over the OpenVPN tunnel (that has IPv4 endpoints as before), but something is wrong, I think on routing.
                  I'm able to ping6 google from the "remote" firewall via the tunnel, but not on the internal "remote" IPv6 network.

                  I'll investigate and let you know if I can reproduce the issue even on OpenVPN.
                  I don't think that will happen anyway, because nothing like this has ever happened to me before with IPv6 and OpenVPN.

                  Bye!
                  Edo

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Sounds like a missing iroute at the server end.

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                      EdoFede
                      last edited by

                      yeah, missing iroute! ๐Ÿ™ƒ
                      Now fixed, thanks!

                      Now I'll monitor the system and let you know if the issue happens also on OpenVPN.

                      Bye,
                      Edo

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                        EdoFede
                        last edited by

                        it seems to be stable on OpenVPN... no reboots/crash at the moment.

                        The only setup difference with the IPSec configuration is that on IPSec I had to manually enter the default route (route -6 add default <tunnel endpoint>) because for some strange reason it was not set automatically (even if I selected the gateway as default in the routing menu).

                        I'll write if it happens again, but I would say that the problem only seems to be present on IPSec.

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