Peaks and stops...

imWACCo

...between 40mb/s and 0kb/s, mostly 0. So I have no clue what's going on.

I know it has to be between my main switch and the pfSense box. I can accesses the switch, but not pfSense when it's dead. I put a new CAT 5e cable in, same thing.

stephenw10

Check the logs, what's happening when it stops responding?

Are you running 2.4.5p1? On what?

Waaaay more info needed.

Steve

imWACCo

2.4.5-RELEASE (amd64)
built on Tue Mar 24 15:25:50 EDT 2020
FreeBSD 11.3-STABLE

I guess I should update? I thought I saw something about on of the releases crashing?

stephenw10

Yup, there is a known performance bug in 2.4.5 that could present exactly like that.

It's fixed in 2.4.5p1. Upgrade!

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/10414

Steve

imWACCo

Sorry, I'm not seeing how to make it show the photo

stephenw10

It could be that. You should upgrade anyway because even if you've found some new issue we can only test it against 2.4.5p1.

Steve

imWACCo

@stephenw10 I must be missing something, what's the "p" for? I found 2.4.5.1, but no "p" in the ver number

stephenw10

It's generally understood to mean 'patch'.

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/2-4-5-p1.html

imWACCo

Ok, I updated. It was still doing it after install, so I rebooted. Now I have nothing, I'm tethered to my phone to get here.

Still on my first cup of coffee. I'll be back in a few hours.

I've not hooked a screen to it, but Email says "20:30:40 Bootup complete"

imWACCo

@stephenw10

P.S. in case I did not imply it, Thank you for helping me. If you're ever in Illinois, I'll buy you a $drink