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    pfSense+ 24.11 on my 1100 reboots every couple of hours

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by stephenw10

      Which RAM disk are you running? If it's /var you are probably losing logs when it restarts. Try disabling that at least as a test so you can get the full logs across a reboot.

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        DaveWh @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10 OK disabled my RAM disks, no new interesting info in the logs after the last reboot:

        Dec 3 12:31:31 router kernel: .done.
        Dec 3 12:31:30 router kernel: ...
        Dec 3 12:31:30 router check_reload_status[633]: Updating all dyndns
        Dec 3 12:31:30 router kernel: done.
        Dec 3 12:31:28 router kernel: done.
        Dec 3 12:31:28 router php-cgi[637]: rc.bootup: NTPD is starting up.
        Dec 3 12:31:28 router kernel: done.
        Dec 3 12:23:43 router php-fpm[1550]: <remainder removed to avoid spam detector>

        Router rebooted at 12:30.

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Hmm, and that last line was nothing interesting?

          The next step would be to connect the serial console to something and log the output. If anything is shown it will be there.
          If it reboots every few hours that should at least be relatively easy.

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            DaveWh @DaveWh
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            A couple more reboots over night. The only interesting thing is snort was active at the moment:

            1:21am:

            Dec 4 01:21:22 router kernel: GDB: debug ports: uart
            Dec 4 01:21:22 router kernel: ---<<BOOT>>---
            Dec 4 01:21:22 router syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
            Dec 4 01:21:29 router snort[49050]: [120:32:1] (http_inspect) RANGE FIELD NOT PRESENT IN GET METHOD, BUT RESPONSE WITH PARTIAL CONTENT [Classification: Unknown Traffic] [Priority: 3] {TCP} 23.32.75.29:80 -> 73.140.138.66:64173
            Dec 4 01:21:29 router snort[49050]: [120:32:1] (http_inspect) RANGE FIELD NOT PRESENT IN GET METHOD, BUT RESPONSE WITH PARTIAL CONTENT [Classification: Unknown Traffic] [Priority: 3] {TCP} 23.32.75.35:80 -> 73.140.138.66:48862

            5:20am
            Dec 4 05:20:22 router kernel: GDB: debug ports: uart
            Dec 4 05:20:22 router kernel: ---<<BOOT>>---
            Dec 4 05:20:22 router syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
            Dec 4 05:20:16 router snort[97846]: [120:32:1] (http_inspect) RANGE FIELD NOT PRESENT IN GET METHOD, BUT RESPONSE WITH PARTIAL CONTENT [Classification: Unknown Traffic] [Priority: 3] {TCP} 23.53.122.218:80 -> 73.140.138.66:4258
            Dec 4 05:20:16 router snort[97846]: [120:32:1] (http_inspect) RANGE FIELD NOT PRESENT IN GET METHOD, BUT RESPONSE WITH PARTIAL CONTENT [Classification: Unknown Traffic] [Priority: 3] {TCP} 23.53.122.199:80 -> 73.140.138.66:7185

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              michmoor LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance @DaveWh
              last edited by

              @DaveWh Snort on an 1100?
              I am using a few 1100s now and its very memory constrained. I wouldnt be surprised if your issues are not in some way related to memory pressure.
              If possible, can you disable Snort, reboot (to clear up memory ) then monitor?

              Firewall: NetGate,Palo Alto-VM,Juniper SRX
              Routing: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
              Switching: Juniper, Arista, Cisco
              Wireless: Unifi, Aruba IAP
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                DaveWh @michmoor
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                @michmoor OK will do. I had snort running on 24.03 just fine...

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Even if it uses all the CPU cycles it still shouldn't crash a reboot! 😕

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                    DaveWh @stephenw10
                    last edited by

                    @stephenw10 snort uninstalled, got a reboot, nothing interesting in the log:

                    *** Welcome to Netgate pfSense Plus 24.11-RELEASE (arm64) on router ***

                    Current Boot Environment: default
                    Next Boot Environment: default

                    WAN (wan) -> mvneta0.4090 -> v4/DHCP4: 73.140.138.66/23
                    LAN (lan) -> mvneta0.4091 -> v4: 192.168.1.1/24
                    OPT (opt1) -> mvneta0.4092 ->
                    WG_VPN (opt2) -> tun_wg0 -> v4: 10.200.0.1/24

                    1. Logout / Disconnect SSH 9) pfTop
                    2. Assign Interfaces 10) Filter Logs
                    3. Set interface(s) IP address 11) Restart GUI
                    4. Reset admin account and password 12) PHP shell + Netgate pfSense Plus tools
                    5. Reset to factory defaults 13) Update from console
                    6. Reboot system 14) Enable Secure Shell (sshd)
                    7. Halt system 15) Restore recent configuration
                    8. Ping host 16) Restart PHP-FPM
                    9. Shell

                    Enter an option: TIM-1.0
                    WTMI-devel-18.12.1-1a13f2f
                    WTMI: system early-init
                    SVC REV: 5, CPU VDD voltage: 1.237V
                    NOTICE: Booting Trusted Firmware
                    NOTICE: BL1: v1.5(release):1f8ca7e-dirty (Marvell-devel-18.12.2)
                    NOTICE: BL1: Built : 18:22:47, Oct 7 2021
                    NOTICE: BL1: Booting BL2
                    NOTICE: BL2: v1.5(release):1f8ca7e-dirty (Marvell-devel-18.12.2)
                    NOTICE: BL2: Built : 18:22:52, Oct 7 2021
                    NOTICE: BL1: Booting BL31
                    NOTICE: BL31: v1.5(release):1f8ca7e-dirty (Marvell-devel-18.12.2)
                    NOTICE: BL31: Built : 18

                    U-Boot 2018.03-devel-18.12.3-gc9aa92c-dirty (Oct 07 2021 - 18:20:55 -0300)

                    Model: Netgate 1100
                    CPU 1200 [MHz]
                    L2 800 [MHz]
                    TClock 200 [MHz]
                    DDR 750 [MHz]
                    DRAM: 1 GiB

                    "Enter an option: " was the prompt and then when the reboot cycle began, it output "TIM-1.0".

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      Hmm, that looks like a hardware issue TBH. It's just rebooting with no output at all.

                      However that would still happen in 24.03 if it is.

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                        DaveWh @stephenw10
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                        @stephenw10 Got tired of chasing this. Bought a new device.

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                          chudak @DaveWh
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                          @DaveWh said in pfSense+ 24.11 on my 1100 reboots every couple of hours:

                          @stephenw10 Got tired of chasing this. Bought a new device.

                          What did you get?

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                            DaveWh @chudak
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                            @chudak SG-4100. Working fine. Came with 24.03 and upgraded to 24.11.

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