WAN & LAN Connection lost, but can't figure out why.
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Can anybody help? This happened again during the middle of the night. I can't even begin to diagnose where the problem is since the machine is completely down and when I reboot it, the logs are cleared. What am I doing wrong?
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Can anybody help? This happened again during the middle of the night. I can't even begin to diagnose where the problem is since the machine is completely down and when I reboot it, the logs are cleared. What am I doing wrong?
Sounds like FreeBSD is panicing. Check your hardware.
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Which component should I check? I can't get any useful information form the logs since they're overwritten when I reboot. How can I tell it not to do that? Shouldn't kernel panics be in /var/log/system.log. But it only goes back to the last boot.
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Set up a remote syslog server. Search the forum for more info.
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http://ultimatebootcd.com/ has some tests to run and check hardware.
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It seems to be happening more frequently now, and I'm not sure it it's software related or some kind of hardware problem.
This happened again last night. When I came into the office moring, I checked the console and the machine was completely locked up. There was a warning at the bottom of the screen that said "Warning…pseudo-random number generator for IPSEC..." Unfortunately, I was not able to write the exact wording of the error down before someone else rebooted the machine.
At this point, I've turned off the VPN. I will see what happens.
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This is getting really frustrating since this continues to happen on a frequent, but random basis. VPN has been off for a while now.
I've tried setting up a remote syslog, but it doesn't appear to be working:
1. Enabled remote syslog of all items on work pfsense box and sent to my home FreeBSD 6.2 server.
2. Opened up and NATed UDP 514 to home server.
3. Killed home syslogd server and started it "/usr/sbin/syslogd -a [work pfsense external IP address].I get nothing. What am I doing wrong.
The thing that kills me is that everytime this happens, both the WAN and LAN connections are dead…I can't even get to the pfsense box when I get back to work. I basically have to pull the power and let it reboot.
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Can you try different hardware? Maybe freebsd has some hickups with the one you are using right now.
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Not really. I specifically purchased this machine to be a pfsense firewall!
I've tested the hardware and it checks out OK. What I don't know is if there are some incompatibilities with PFSense. It is an emachines, barebones walmart special. Again, I only wanted a firewall machine!
I have the syslog working now via Kiwi…so we'll see what happens the next time it dies.
We'll see what happens.
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Checking for Biosupdates sometimes helps with compatibility in edgecases too.