Potential issues with hardware?

unique_username

Hay guys, not sure where to post this, so here it goes haha.
Please move if needs be.

So I run PFSense on an old PC with an i5-3570 CPU and 8GB RAM, running Suricata IDS/IDS and an OpenVPN connection to PIA
It works okay for my 100/20 connection.

My issue is that it randomly drops the VPN when I load it up (temps and CPU usage stay low).
I have fully reinstalled it (such a pain with suricata's rules with no export/import feature...) and today just tried Nord (normally PIA).

No matter what I do, I cant figure out whats going on.
I have been on to support with both VPN providers to no avail and have a post here about it:

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/184723/issues-with-vpn-disconnecting-randomly-write-udpv4-permission-denied-fd-6-code-13

As I said in the above post, I'm thinking its something to do with the hardware.
Any ideas on how to test it?
Its completely fine on normal usage.

Cheers

stephenw10

@unique_username said in Potential issues with hardware?:

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/184723/issues-with-vpn-disconnecting-randomly-write-udpv4-permission-denied-fd-6-code-13

That doesn't look like a hardware issue. Anything hardware would affect more than just OpenVPN and would usually be far more random. The only thing I could imagine that might present like that would be some hardware encryption device.

Seeing write UDPv4: Permission denied like that looks far more like the firewall blocking the traffic. I would suspect Suricata triggering on something if you;re running it in blocking mode?

Steve

unique_username

WOW. I didnt even think about suricata blocking it! Thanks mate