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    Help with ALIX - reboot needed ~10min!!

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      pcmofo
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      @chpalmer:

      Patch cable??

      Same setup works fine with ipcop. I have an old pc setup with ipcop. I just swapped it out for the ALIX board. Its working right now but hasnt for the past 30 min… it seems to work in spurts.... idk.... I would really like this to work so that I can get a few clients of mine to use them to vpn between offices.... :-/

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      • chpalmerC
        chpalmer
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        Which version of the firmware are you using?

        Triggering snowflakes one by one..
        Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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          pcmofo
          last edited by

          @chpalmer:

          Which version of the firmware are you using?

          1.2 embedded

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          • dotdashD
            dotdash
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            Just checking, but you are running the 0.99 bios on that, right?

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              pcmofo
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              @dotdash:

              Just checking, but you are running the 0.99 bios on that, right?

              Yes. And I just tried 1.2.1 which seems to work slightly better but still lose all connectivity except the serial port every 10 min

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                pcmofo
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                some new developements. When I reset my switches or sometimes disable and renable wifi or LAN conn I can connect to the Internet fine. The LAN still works fine the whole time and it does the same thing with static and dynamic ip on all the pcs. I still haven't figured this out. I might have to go back to ipcop.

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                  pcmofo
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                  I have gone back to using my linksys router while I sort out this ALIX problems. I am currently building a server closet which should be done in a day or two so we will see how things shape up when everything is installed in its final place.

                  I am hoping someone can provide a suggestion as to anything I can try or something I might be doing wrong….

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                    elliotcater
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                    Hi,

                    I suppose i shouldn't complain as my alix decides to reboot itself ever few hours instead of me having to go and physically reboot it!

                    But I am sick of it now.  With no warning I get a fatal trap 12 page fault panic and it reboots, I've tried re-installing on different CF cards, resizing the image so the diskusage isn't hovering at 94%, updated bios to 0.99, put the box on a ups with surge protection etc… I'm lost!

                    Is it time to send it back and get a new one sent out and just deal with the downtime?

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                      eri--
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                      Are this page faults in 1.2 or 1.2.1?
                      Can you be more verbose on your setups?

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                        elliotcater
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                        yes sorry

                        Latest (stable 1.2) embedded release running on a 1Gb CF card (not re-sized so really 128) with the 0.99 tiny bios.

                        I have 2 wan connections load balanced using the guide from the forum with a handfull of nat rules pointing to a couple of servers on the lan.

                        here is an example of something I captured thru the serial:

                        enter an option: kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled

                        Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
                        fault virtual address  = 0x4f0c92cc
                        fault code              = supervisor read, page not present
                        instruction pointer    = 0x20:0xc0631273
                        stack pointer          = 0x28:0xcbff1cec
                        frame pointer          = 0x28:0xcbff1d0c
                        code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
                                                = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
                        processor eflags        = resume, IOPL = 0
                        current process        = 35 (schedcpu)
                        trap number            = 12
                        panic: page fault
                        Uptime: 30m14s
                        Cannot dump. No dump device defined.
                        Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort

                        This happens every so often but at least once a day.

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