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    Big issue from 2.5.2 to 2.6. NIC stop working

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      reynold @stephenw10
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      @stephenw10 with tcpdump I noted that NIC stop receiving traffic.
      It happens on every NIC

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Ah so it appears to lock up the NIC/driver somehow.

        Do you mean it causes all NICs to stop passing traffic at the same time?

        Or just that any NIC you connect to will fail the same way?

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          reynold @stephenw10
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          @stephenw10 i connected at two nics with two devices and two ip addresses. When i try access gui everything crash on all nics. All crash at same time. I tried also opnsense. Samd resulta. I enter ip in web i press enter and nic crash. After some time crash everything also console. I need tò reboot

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            OK so:

            It stops responding at all on all NICs. Even to ping.

            The console remains responsive.

            Can you ping out from the console? To something via the WAN perhaps?

            And nothing is logged when that happens?

            I really expect to see some error.

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              reynold @stephenw10
              last edited by reynold

              @stephenw10 Yes
              At first NIC responds to ping
              If i enter 192.168.1.1 in browser and i press enter it stops working an all NICs even PING
              Device is able to ping itself
              So appliance is able to ping 192.168.1.1. It responds
              Console remain responsive
              Nothing is logged, but maybe i do not able to find some log.
              In shell i can not see anything.

              I tried to replace RAM and PSU but the issue persists

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                Literally nothing is logged or just nothing that appears related?

                Does dmesg return anything different?

                You could also check the mac stats for the NIC using: sysctl dev.igb.1
                See if anything there is throwing a load of errors.

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                  reynold @stephenw10
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                  @stephenw10 no error i think
                  it says driver version 2.5.19-fbsd and other info but no error are displayed.
                  Same problem if i try to make ssh access

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                  • GertjanG
                    Gertjan @reynold
                    last edited by

                    @reynold said in Big issue from 2.5.2 to 2.6. NIC stop working:

                    Same problem if i try to make ssh access

                    For SSH to work, you need a working interface first.
                    Console access is your friend.
                    If you know you're way around, go look here : /var/log/
                    You'll find all the logs files there.
                    Check what's been log lines were added to the most recent updated files.

                    No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                    Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                      reynold @Gertjan
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                      @Gertjan I have different log system filter boot.log...
                      What kinds of logs should I check?
                      How can i display log from the most recent updated?

                      thank you

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                        reynold @Gertjan
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                        @Gertjan system log says transmit failed network is down

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Errors in the sysctls might look like:

                          dev.igb.0.watchdog_timeouts: 0
                          dev.igb.0.rx_overruns: 0
                          dev.igb.0.dropped: 0
                          
                          dev.igb.0.mac_stats.coll_ext_errs: 0
                          dev.igb.0.mac_stats.alignment_errs: 0
                          dev.igb.0.mac_stats.crc_errs: 0
                          dev.igb.0.mac_stats.recv_errs: 0
                          
                          dev.igb.0.mac_stats.sequence_errors: 0
                          dev.igb.0.mac_stats.symbol_errors: 0
                          dev.igb.0.mac_stats.collision_count: 0
                          
                          

                          Anything bigger than 0 there could be a clue.

                          Also interesting would be if the stats stop increasing at all when the NIC stop responding.

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                            reynold @stephenw10
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                            @stephenw10 no errors.
                            I noted only ring state pidx tail 027 idle
                            no errors
                            Replace psu mini stata disk and ram.
                            Issue persists.

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                              reynold @stephenw10
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                              @stephenw10
                              obviously if i downgrade to 2.5.2 everythings return working again.
                              I also tried installing different filesystem ufs and zfs but issue persists

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @reynold
                                last edited by

                                @reynold said in Big issue from 2.5.2 to 2.6. NIC stop working:

                                system log says transmit failed network is down

                                What's the actual log entry there? And any surrounding it from the same time period?

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                                  Gertjan @reynold
                                  last edited by

                                  @reynold

                                  The dmesg.boot file might also contain important info.

                                  No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                  Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                    reynold @stephenw10
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                                    @stephenw10 I found strange log saying
                                    unbound /var/unbound/root.key file is corrput. removing and recreating

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                                      Gertjan @reynold
                                      last edited by

                                      @reynold said in Big issue from 2.5.2 to 2.6. NIC stop working:

                                      unbound /var/unbound/root.key file is corrput. removing and recreating

                                      Next time when you reboot, watch this movie first :
                                      How to Run a pfSense Software File System Check (5/2020) and do what is suggested.

                                      And from now on : always power down with the GUI, as ripping out the power will 'destroy' the file system.
                                      I presume unbound couldn't generate the files you've mentioned.
                                      Two major reasons : disk full (which is quiet impossible if the system was just installed) or file system bad, which is quit possible.
                                      Especially as 2.6.0 doesn't have the ZFS system, but the older UFS file system.

                                      Btw : really ... 2.6.0. ? ok ..... and you're lucky, this forum has ten of thousands of posts about the pfSense 2.6.0 version. That's a good thing, as I don't recall any of them ....

                                      No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                      Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by

                                        A missing unbound key might be expected after hard reboot yes. None of that explains why all the NICs stop passing traffic though. I'm not aware of any issue with igb that would present like that.

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