Watchdog timeout with ACPI Off
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I've installed pfSense 1.2 then upgraded to pfSense-Full-Update-1.2.1-RC1-20080913-0353 on an FX5621 (4 x RealTek 8139 10/100 and 2 x Agere ET1310 Gigabit Ethernet which got recognized after the update) and I keep getting watchdog timeouts on all interfaces at once.
The first time it happened the router worked for two days, suddenly stopped working and then had that error again 5 minutes after I rebooted it. I then tried to disable ACPI (http://devwiki.pfsense.org/BootOptions) though it looked like it was already disabled by default since the boot menu offers an option to boot with ACPI ON. I let the router on its own for three days with no problem and then decided to use it again as our main router (dual-WANs). It lasted two days and was working absolutely flawlessly but then I got the error again.
Is there a known solution to this?
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Just in case the problem was caused by traffic I let the box sit there during the weekend without any cable plugged in and all interfaces failed again with that watchdog timeout error :(
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Just in case it could be of interest to anybody, I installed 1.2 and haven't run into the error since then…
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I run 1.2.1 rc2 on FX5621 and I'm getting these watchdog timeouts too. They start on ET0 but can then be seen on the other RL interfaces as well.
As seen by peterclo these occur after about 2days of uptime. But from time to time they occur immediately on bootup.
For my setup I only needed 2 interfaces (LAN/WAN) for a dedicated transparent squid box on one WAN of my main firewall (also 1.2.1, but not FX5621 hardware). Now a few days after switching to the 100Mbit RL interfaces only, I have not seen any watchdog timeouts.
So it looks like there may be a problem with the ET0/1 driver/config on 1.2.1 when running fx5621 hardware.
Well that makes two of us, hard to believe there are just two of us running 1.2.1 rc2 on FX5621, is nobody else seeing this?
Nick.