"Address already in use" and lan port locks up

spetnik · Sep 27, 2011, 7:47 PM

Periodically, our pfSense router will completely stop responding on the LAN side. Unplugging and replugging the LAN cable fixes the issue every time.

Whenever this happens (as much as several times a day), I see the following (usually several times) in the system log at the time of the issue:


inetd[22782]: 19000/udp: bind: Address already in use

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Metu69salemi · Sep 27, 2011, 8:01 PM

i don't know what it is, but iana says that tcp/udp 19000 is iGrid server port. Does it ring any bells?

spetnik · Sep 27, 2011, 8:20 PM

Not at all.

spetnik · Sep 27, 2011, 8:23 PM

Actually, it just happened again without that error.

Any idea why this should happen and just unplugging and replugging the LAN cable would fix it?

jimp · Sep 28, 2011, 7:18 PM

That is from NAT reflection. It's trying to bind the reflection daemon to a high port in order to bounce connections back.

That message is likely not related to what you are seeing - something else must be happening before that to trigger a reload of the LAN interface. Perhaps it's losing its link (or it believes it is).

Sounds like it could be a flaky cable/NIC/switch port.