PfSense - slow on boot up
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In fact I reboot once or twice a week as my box seems to loose Internet connection.
I reboot the cable modem and still no Internet.
Then I reboot pfS and Internet comes back.
BTW, the same happens with m0n0 but more like once in 2 or 3 weeks ;).
And I'm not the only one suffering from these issues.
Our user "kwag" has also seen this kind of problems with both m0n0 and pfS.
On the other hand I'm affraid that CARP will not solve my problem, at least in the near future because I'm not buying another net4501/4801.
And especially after what you just said about hw requisits.
I would rather prefer finding the proper EPIA board and build a new box!
And if you guys could help me find it I would be very much appreciated.
If only Mikrotik's RouterBoard hardware http://www.routerboard.com/rb500.html was built with more RAM and would be able to boot from CF reader…
Their hardware seems fantastic and prices also look good.
If there are no other alternatives I'd go with EPIA but I don't want to buy a board with needless vga, audio, parallel port and ps/2 ports.
So help is needed and would be very much appreciated.
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If I where you I would focus my energies on getting your internet access stable.
My connection pretty much NEVER goes down.
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No way, Scott.
My Internet access is working properly because when my pfS box freezes, I remove the cable from the back of my net4521 and connect it straight to the back of my PC (1st activating sygate soft fw) and my Internet is working fine.
And if I connect it back again to my net4521 I still don't have internet connection.
Fortunatly it hasn't been happening very often but that might be because I have been upgrading pfS a lot thus rebooting it also a lot.
I'll upgrade to BETA1 and leave it like that for ~ a week.
Then I'll let you know.
BTW I'm currently running 0.97 and my WoL still shows up as stopped under Status > Services.
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If you say it stops working with m0n0wall AND pfSense, doesn't that tell you something?
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Well, on one hand yes but on the other hand it doesn't when connected directly to my PC running a software firewall…
So, what would it tell me this way?
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Well for starters I would start to check the hardware in question. I've got many many m0n0walls in production and they never exhibit this behavior, and when they do we check the hardware over with a fine tooth comb and then check the internet connection.
We also have some ISP's in this area that don't play well for devices that don't have their software loaded. They do evil tricks like switching between PPPoE and DHCP and the software handles this on the fly.
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I see, but on my end I don't need PPOE.
I'm running a plain cable connection.
One thing I'd like to test is my CF card.
I'm really starting to have 2nd thoughts on it :-[.
Any good M$ software to check for CF read/write errors out there?
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Any good M$ software to check for CF read/write errors out there?
That's a good question. I've never run across anything such as this.
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Cause you see the only thing I have is a 16MB CF.
Not enough for pfS but enough for m0n0.
And running m0n0 on the 16MB CF I really can't recall having those big lockups…
Or maybe it's my mind playing tricks on me ;D.
If anyone else knows a nice peace of software to test CF cards just let me know.
Otherwise I'll see how much a new 256MB Sandisk will cost me :(.
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Any good M$ software to check for CF read/write errors out there?
That's a good question. I've never run across anything such as this.
Simply create a dump file the size of the CF, with a value of hex 0xAA ( 10101010 ), and write it to the flash card. Then verify that there are no errors when comparing against the dump file.
Now write another dump file of hex 0x55 (01010101), and do the same.
This will veryfy that all bits on each byte of memory are set/unset and written/verified correctly.-Karl