WAN interface Restarts every quarter hour
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Running FULL 2.0-RC1 (i386) built on Mon Feb 28 18:12:00 EST 2011.
On every quarter hour mark (+ or - 1 min) of 15/30/40/00, there are entries in the system log showing the WAN interface has lost connection. This 'outage' lasts less then secs in nearly every instance. Sometimes this triggers the DynDNS client to attempt to re-register and others it will restart DNSMasq and sometimes no service restarts.
The only entry to indicate this is: php: "Could not find gateway for interface(wan)."Both the router and pfSense are connected to the same Cisco switch within a Layer 2 VLAN. The switch does not show any errors nor any link state transistions.
I did a clean install of RC1 and recreated the configuration (not imported) on the same machine previously running 1.2.3-Release FULL without this loss of connectivity.
I cannot update to the latest SNAP until Friday to see if this has been resolved and a search of the Forum and Google shows no hits (other than a default gateway option not checked).
The interface in question is using the dc0 module.
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Are you seeing time jumps in the logs between consecutive entries?
Podilairus
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Not sure what you mean by "jumps" but I don't see anything unusual in the logs by the timestamps.
Here is the current system log:
Mar 10 08:30:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 08:30:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 08:20:00 dnsmasq[41726]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses
Mar 10 08:19:57 dnsmasq[41726]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses
Mar 10 08:17:57 dnsmasq[41726]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses
Mar 10 08:17:48 dnsmasq[41726]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses
Mar 10 08:17:46 dnsmasq[41726]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses
Mar 10 08:17:44 dnsmasq[41726]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses
Mar 10 08:16:31 dnsmasq[41726]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses
Mar 10 08:15:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 08:15:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 08:02:09 dnsmasq[41726]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses
Mar 10 08:00:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 08:00:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 07:59:51 dnsmasq[41726]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses
Mar 10 07:46:45 dnsmasq[41726]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses
Mar 10 07:45:08 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 07:45:08 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 07:42:58 dnsmasq[41726]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses
Mar 10 07:42:14 dnsmasq[41726]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses
Mar 10 07:30:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 07:30:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 07:15:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 07:15:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 07:00:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 07:00:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 06:45:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 06:45:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 06:37:55 dnsmasq[41726]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses
Mar 10 06:30:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 06:30:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 06:15:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 06:15:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 06:00:08 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 06:00:08 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 05:45:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 05:45:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 05:30:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 05:30:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 05:15:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 05:15:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 05:00:08 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 05:00:08 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 04:45:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 04:45:07 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 04:30:08 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 04:30:08 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 04:15:05 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 04:15:05 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 04:00:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 04:00:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 03:45:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 03:45:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 03:34:54 dnsmasq[41726]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses
Mar 10 03:30:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 03:30:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 03:15:08 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 03:15:08 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 03:00:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 03:00:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan). -
Just upgraded to latest SNAP and still getting the error.
Mar 10 20:30:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan).
Mar 10 20:30:06 php: : Could not find gateway for interface(wan). -
perhaps a cron job which starts every quarter hour ?
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You are correct - it appears to be a cron job
0,15,30,45 * * * * root /etc/rc.filter_configure_syncNot sure what this job does since I don't understand PHP well, but to guess by the function calls, it seems to be doing some interface housekeeping tasks.
require_once("config.inc"); require_once("functions.inc"); require_once("filter.inc"); require_once("shaper.inc"); require_once("ipsec.inc"); require_once("vpn.inc"); /* invalidate interface cache */ get_interface_arr(true); filter_configure_sync();
Strange that no one else has encountered this issue. This is a clean install since I was unable to import my old config backup cleanly so I would think this pfSense cron job would run on everyone's install. I guess I need to keep digging…..
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@tix:
This is a clean install since I was unable to import my old config backup cleanly so I would think this pfSense cron job would run on everyone's install.
That entry isn't in my /etc/crontab
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That must be some package doing that.
Either way your issue is that you have to go to the wan a choose a gateway if your wan is static.
Otherwise its strange that you are getting that error even though that crontab is active.Please show your interface config section if the above does not help.
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Thanks for the pointing me in that direction. It appears that the IPv6 package has been installed by a co-worker. I'm going to try that forum now and see what they say. That is the only package installed.
Thanks for the assistance and if I can get an answer over there I'll update this thread.
Other than this I have no problems running the RC! Good Work and many thanks!
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I'm seeing something similar in my System Logs.
I'm running in a ESXi 4.1 VM with only package installed vnstat2 and Snort.
2.0-RC1 (amd64)
built on Tue Mar 22 00:31:28 EDT 2011Mar 23 21:05:18 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 20:05:18 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 20:05:18 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 19:05:18 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 18:05:18 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 18:05:18 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 17:05:17 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 17:05:17 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 16:05:17 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 15:05:18 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 15:05:18 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 14:05:17 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 14:05:17 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 13:05:17 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 12:05:17 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 12:05:17 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 11:05:17 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 10:05:17 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 10:05:17 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 09:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 09:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 08:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 07:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 07:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 06:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 05:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 05:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 04:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 03:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 03:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 02:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 01:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 01:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 23 00:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 22 23:05:17 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 22 23:05:17 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 22 22:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 22 21:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 22 21:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 22 20:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 22 19:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 22 19:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 22 18:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 22 17:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 22 17:05:16 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses Mar 22 16:05:17 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 26 addresses Mar 22 15:38:39 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses Mar 22 15:38:39 dnsmasq[38221]: read /etc/hosts - 25 addresses