Pfsense 2.0.2 crashes daily

charlien

I have 4 intel em(4) type nics and i saw the pfsense advisary about these nics in amd64 machine having issues and i modified the /boot/loader.conf.local file with the setting but has not helped.

I was planning on using intel nics in my new setup. Where can I get more information about this?

ptt

@charlien:

I was planning on using intel nics in my new setup. Where can I get more information about this?

Just check the Docs ;D

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Tuning_and_Troubleshooting_Network_Cards

chpalmer

512MB of RAM total on that machine? Or allocated by the VM?

As jimp said in the other post- Id put 2.0.3 prerelease on it and see if things change.

I have several boxes with both 2.0.3 and 2.1 running and none of them ever crash. But Im not running under a VM so can't speak for that.

Supermule

I use 32 bit VM's with 2.0.2 and no issues regarding crashes. Only Snort is pulling my leg right now…

rclaus

the vm has 768mb of ram. i would like to try 2.0.3 but cannot find where i can download it from. could someone tell me where i can obtain 2.0.3?
thanks so much for the help

chpalmer

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,60151.msg323778.html#msg323778

Are you running anything else on the physical machine? The RAM seems very anemic to me. Though I still have XP sp1 desktops (non internet) running 256MB so Im probably wrong.

tim.mcmanus

I have a somewhat detailed set of instructions for doing a manual firmware upgrade to the 2.0.3 release. See the middle of this chunky post:

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,58933.msg316734.html#msg316734

Start reading at the paragraph that begins with "Now, updating to a more current version requires a little bit of searching but it's a handy thing to know. "

rclaus

the host server for the vm has 12 other instances of vm's so i had thought 768mb good size but can bump it up some.
thanks for all the information.

rclaus

i upgraded to 2.0.3 this morning and i just had a kernel panic on the fw and has rebooted from the crash.
i uploaded the crash dump and the fw ip should be 199.255.156.227 although the carp virtual ip for the wan is 199.255.156.226
was hoping someone could look at the dumps to see what is going on with my setup.
thx

rclaus

this issue is resolved now. i installed 2.1 beta version which has newer release of FreeBSD and updated Intel nic drivers and i am having no more daily crashes.
i assume the older version of FreeBSD that the 2.0.x pfSense uses had bad em(4) drivers :) the 2.1 beta version is performing well for me.
thanks
Richard