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    Every couple of weeks pfSense completly stops responding?

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    • J
      JohnnyBeGood @johnpoz
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      @johnpoz said in Every couple of weeks pfSense completly stops responding?:

      So unless your box failed in such a fashion that is was flooding the network with so much traffic that prevents others from talking.. You can turn pfsense off, unplug it from the network and box A can still talk to B.. Only at such time that their dhcp lease expires and the dhcp server is not there (pfsense) would it matter, or if they were trying to resolve a name and pfsense is not there to resolve it, etc.

      Thanks for the explanation, makes perfect sense.

      I remember that pfSense was not responding to pings nor I could get GUI to respond.

      I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit!

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      • johnpozJ
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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        @johnnybegood said in Every couple of weeks pfSense completly stops responding?:

        I remember that pfSense was not responding to pings nor I could get GUI to respond.

        Ok that has nothing to do with box A pinging box B on your network - if that is not working then you got something more wrong than just pfsense locking up..

        So either it failed in spectacular fashion and is flooding your network with crap which prevents anyone else from talking.. That would be RARE!!! Or yeah it failed hard, if you can not get to console then yeah something major wrong..

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          JohnnyBeGood
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          I've tried pings from box A to pfSense and box B to pfsense. No response.
          After I did reboot (power button once) 3 days ago its working normal like before. I think I should get SSD to rule out problem with my old HD.

          I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit!

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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            And did you ping from A to B? ;)

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              JohnnyBeGood
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              Now I question my self if I did :)

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                @johnnybegood said in Every couple of weeks pfSense completly stops responding?:

                I remember that pfSense was not responding to pings nor I could get GUI to respond.

                Both those things would happen if the LAN NIC locked up as Realtek NICs sometimes do.

                But that would not stop the console responding and that's an important test. In the console is still responsive then you know you have a NIC issue. It is isn't you probably have some other hardware issue, bad ram overheating etc.

                Steve

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                • DerelictD
                  Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
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                  Could also be something else coming online with the same IP address as pfSense. But still has nothing to do with hosts on the same L2 communicating with each other.

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                    JohnnyBeGood
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                    @stephenw10 said in Every couple of weeks pfSense completly stops responding?:

                    console

                    You guys are referring to being physically at the pfSense connected with keyboard and monitor? I don't have either one connected but I guess when it happens next I can connect monitor and keyboard to see if it responds.

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      Yes exactly. Or the serial console if your firewall has that. But something out of band of the Realtek NIC.

                      Steve

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                        JohnnyBeGood
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                        Thanks, I will try that next time.

                        I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit!

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                          JohnnyBeGood
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                          So this happened today again and this time I had a chance to connect to the monitor and keyboard. It was not showing anything on the monitor nor did it respond to any of the keyboard strokes.
                          Only after pressing power once on Shuttle DS437 it shutdown.
                          First I updated to 2.4.4-p3 and then updated to "Official Realtek Driver Binary 1.95 For 2.4.4 Release" as stephenw10 suggested.

                          Can driver issue cause console access to the point it does not display any video?

                          I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit!

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                          • GertjanG
                            Gertjan
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                            Device Driver issues are very capable of taking the system down, or parts of it.
                            So, no "more screen" is possible, the system locked up ..

                            No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                            Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                              JohnnyBeGood
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                              Interesting. Keeping fingers crossed ☺

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                Yup, that could be it. Though that's not one of the symptoms usually seen with Realtek NICs I would not rule it out.

                                Steve

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