Pfsense stops. Please help.

[emammadov]

Clients are getting ip address via dhcp with static mappings. I began to see these errors after restarting pfsense. Actually I have noticed pfsense after restart in the past and haven't see these error logs.

[Gertjan]

@emammadov said in Pfsense stops. Please help.:

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[emammadov]

It has been 2 days that pfsense doesn't stop. But I want to understand why I see these errors in system logs.

[stephenw10]

So you're seeing that for all the static ARP entries then?

Do you actually see them in the ARP table?

Steve

[emammadov]

Yes, I see all the static arp entries and they are also located in the arp table. I changed all RAMs with new ones. Network cards are new.

I am attaching logs in .txt file.
0_1541015861024_logs.txt

[stephenw10]

Hmm, odd. Do you need those to be static ARP entries?

Did you find any logging in the bios or iLO indicating what the hardware issue was?

Steve

[almost__retarded]

@stephenw10 said in Pfsense stops. Please help.:

Hmm, odd. Do you need those to be static ARP entries?

Did you find any logging in the bios or iLO indicating what the hardware issue was?

Steve

Bumping this as I am experiencing the same issue as discussed although my pfsense box seems to be operating normally.

Here is a copy of my syslog.

I have created a thread on the pfSense subreddit as well. That thread is located here.

[stephenw10]

Usually that means it can't add entries for those IPs as it doesn't have an interface in that subnet. What interfaces/IPs do you have?

What are those IPs though? They all have the same, obviously spoofed, MAC.

Steve

[almost__retarded]

@stephenw10 should have mentioned that the logs were scrubbed. The MAC addresses are all unique and valid.

I have a two port chelsio t520 with both ports bonded in a LAGG interface. I am using that LAGG as the parent for all of the VLANs. The IP addresses are static DHCP/ARP reservations created for each of the subsequent virtual interfaces.

[stephenw10]

But what subnets are they using?

[almost__retarded]

@stephenw10 ah, apologies. The VLANS are all /24

In the interface settings I have given them each a static IP of 10.0.XX.1/24

[stephenw10]

Ok so are those VLANs all up and valid when you are seeing those errors? As I said that usually indicates it's trying to create an ARP entry for an IP outside any valid subnet on the firewall.

Steve

[almost__retarded]

@stephenw10 yeah, that's why it's so strange, they are all within the /24 subnet. These log entries appear on boot in the general logs tab.

[stephenw10]

The log shows only that the lagg is down:

Sep 26 10:08:38 pfSense kernel: lagg0: link state changed to DOWN

I assume all the VLANs are on that lagg so will also be down.

Steve

[almost__retarded]

@stephenw10 yes, I thought of that as well. I have the switch ports turned off while I configure the firewall so nothing is actually connected to the pfsense box at the moment. I'm accessing the GUI via the LAN interface.

I turned the switch ports on and reboot the box but I'm still getting the same errors. Would it matter if the interfaces were created when the LAGG was down?

[stephenw10]

Not creating the interfaces but adding static ARP entries might. Not sure I've ever tried.

Do you actually need static ARP entries there?

[almost__retarded]

@stephenw10 probably not, it's a matter of habit. I'll probably disable ARP altogether and see what happens.