Every couple of weeks pfSense completly stops responding?
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@johnnybegood said in Every couple of weeks pfSense completly stops responding?:
I remember that pfSense was not responding to pings nor I could get GUI to respond.
Both those things would happen if the LAN NIC locked up as Realtek NICs sometimes do.
But that would not stop the console responding and that's an important test. In the console is still responsive then you know you have a NIC issue. It is isn't you probably have some other hardware issue, bad ram overheating etc.
Steve
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Could also be something else coming online with the same IP address as pfSense. But still has nothing to do with hosts on the same L2 communicating with each other.
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@stephenw10 said in Every couple of weeks pfSense completly stops responding?:
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You guys are referring to being physically at the pfSense connected with keyboard and monitor? I don't have either one connected but I guess when it happens next I can connect monitor and keyboard to see if it responds.
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Yes exactly. Or the serial console if your firewall has that. But something out of band of the Realtek NIC.
Steve
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Thanks, I will try that next time.
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So this happened today again and this time I had a chance to connect to the monitor and keyboard. It was not showing anything on the monitor nor did it respond to any of the keyboard strokes.
Only after pressing power once on Shuttle DS437 it shutdown.
First I updated to 2.4.4-p3 and then updated to "Official Realtek Driver Binary 1.95 For 2.4.4 Release" as stephenw10 suggested.Can driver issue cause console access to the point it does not display any video?
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Device Driver issues are very capable of taking the system down, or parts of it.
So, no "more screen" is possible, the system locked up .. -
Interesting. Keeping fingers crossed
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Yup, that could be it. Though that's not one of the symptoms usually seen with Realtek NICs I would not rule it out.
Steve
