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    Pfsense stops. Please help.

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      almost__retarded @stephenw10
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      @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.

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by 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

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          almost__retarded @stephenw10
          last edited by 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.

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            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            But what subnets are they using?

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              almost__retarded @stephenw10
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              @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

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                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                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

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                  almost__retarded @stephenw10
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                  @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.

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                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                    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

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                      almost__retarded @stephenw10
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                      @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?

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                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by 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?

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

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