Timeout on LAN interface

Gambinosa

My pfSense setup is working great exept in one situtation.
When I start torrent on my computer couple of seconds lattter LAN interface on pfSense stops functioning. On monitor attacher to pfSense box I see watchdog warning.
I have to reboot pfSense to use it again, but if I start torrent again same thing happens.

stephenw10

What NIC is your LAN interface? What driver is it using?

Steve

Gambinosa

All three interfaces (WAN 1, WAN 2 & LAN) uses the same NIC bit this only happens on LAN. This is what sysinfo says: Sundance ST201 10/100BaseTX

stephenw10

Ok, so ste0-2 then?

Anything in the logs? Anything is the boot messages? Perhaps this:

kernel: ste0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface

Might only apply to earlier pfSense versions. What version are you running? (Full/Nano/Embedded)

Is this an embedded hardware? More hardware details please.

It could genuinely be a bad cable or failing switch.

Steve

burnsl

For the record, I also have been seeing this.

The PFsense version is 2.1.4
Running as a VMware virtual machine on ESXi 4.1u1
Using VMXNET2 adapters.

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stephenw10

4.1 is quite old, an issue perhaps? I don't run ESXi though I can't really comment.

Steve