2.5.0 seems more stable
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I know with every release, the primary forum activity is people driven to the forum when there is a problem. Not many come to say nice things. I'm here to say nice things today.
After spending several months testing daily builds and such, I've obviously settled on plain 2.5.0, imported my old configs, and added in the Realtek driver. So far stable for 43+ days. No noticeable crashing of the network interface, no ipv6 issues, and no unbound crashes leading to partial outages.
Occasionally on 2.4.5 I'd get decent uptime; but it wasn't really all that stable. Some days I'd have to restart the network interfaces, unbound, or the whole machine 2 or 3 times. Sometimes once a week.
Looking forward to 2.5.1 also. I know the codebase and some tempers have been a little whack lately; but I still believe in the Netgate team and the product as a whole. Good job all.
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@skogs said in 2.5.0 seems more stable:
wasn't really all that stable. Some days I'd have to restart the network interfaces, unbound, or the whole machine 2 or 3 times. Sometimes once a week.
Glad you're having better luck. I've run pfSense and m0n0wall before that for many years and general instability was never a problem across multiple clients. I've seen them run for years without a reboot if an unmanaged client got behind in updates. We have exactly one Realtek card in service, and it hasn't been a problem, but I do see posts pretty frequently here bashing Realtek due to the FreeBSD drivers. So I'd guess it was more likely the "added in the Realtek driver" part of your post? Not saying you're wrong...just very patient.
