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    Pfsense causes internet to freeze.

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      oakis
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      Everything seems to be fine.

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        hoba
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        How long is the cable between switch and nic? I have seen funy things happening when using too short cables on some equipement. Your logs clearly state that the link is coming up and down all the time.

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          oakis
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          I think its a 3-m cable.. tho it has been working for 6 months without this problem before.

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            hoba
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            Things always tend to run fine until they break  ;)
            Still looks like a hardwareproblem to me. Maybe reset the switch.

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              oakis
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              Tried to restart the router(pfsense), the switch and the modem.

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                hoba
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                This is a hardwarefailure. You have to start changing equipement to find out what's wrong I guess.

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                  oakis
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                  Seems like it only happends when there is trafic.

                  Mar 16 08:29:23 	kernel: dc0: link state changed to DOWN
                  Mar 16 01:56:46 	kernel: dc0: link state changed to DOWN
                  

                  The time that i was sleeping it didnt fail.

                  Dunno if this helps.

                   LAN interface (dc0)
                  Status 	up
                  IP address 	192.168.0.1  
                  Subnet mask 	255.255.255.0
                  Media 	10baseT/UTP
                  In/out packets 	2258538/2942016 (633.59 MB/2.52 GB)
                  In/out errors 	0/0
                  Collisions 	319902
                  

                  Do i get all those collisions because i use a hub, and not a switch?

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                    hoba
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                    I think you have some autonegotiation issues. You could try to hardcode the interface speed by using hidden config.xml magic. See http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook-single/#FAQ.hiddenopts for how to set mediaoptions. It's the same for pfSense.

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                      oakis
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                      @hoba:

                      I think you have some autonegotiation issues. You could try to hardcode the interface speed by using hidden config.xml magic. See http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook-single/#FAQ.hiddenopts for how to set mediaoptions. It's the same for pfSense.

                      Trying it now, still have alot of collitions though!

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                        oakis
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                        Still not working. The wierd thing is that it doesnt happen between 00 and 09 in the night/morning. :S

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                          Cry Havok
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                          @oakis:

                          Trying it now, still have alot of collitions though!

                          You'll always get that with a hub, that's why it's been pretty much impossible to buy one for the last 5+ years ;)

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                            oakis
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                            Well, our switch broke down and i had this old baby still. :D
                            (the problem did not start when i switched to hub)

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                              Cry Havok
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                              If you've always had high collisions then you had a very badly broken switch.  Your other problems (as you've been told, repeatedly) strongly point to broken hardware.

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                                oakis
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                                No i have not always had high collisions, only when using the hub.

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