Crash after upload speed test

A Former User · May 18, 2019, 9:01 AM

Hi, im runnung pfsense on Atomic pi. Pfsense does routing on single nic with vlan setup for different networks including the wan side. On the wan side im connecting with pppoe to a ftth modem. The speed should be 70/70. But when im trying to do a speedtest on the wan side it crashes when it comes to the upload test. Download test works fine. The box isnt responding anymore when the upload test begins.
Is there a easy fix for this? I saw there are a few tweaks in loader.conf but no luck for me yet.
Cheerz

stephenw10 · May 19, 2019, 10:25 AM

Not responding at the GUI? SSH? via the console?

Do you have a crash report?

Any sort of logged error?

What NIC does that use?

Steve

A Former User · May 19, 2019, 10:41 AM

@stephenw10
Hi, i can ping it but nothing else.. i dont have serial console because it fails to boot if i enable the uarts. The nic is a Realtek RTL8111. Where can i find the logs/enable logging? Cheerz

stephenw10 · May 19, 2019, 11:02 AM

In Status > System Logs. Check in particular for any watchdog timeout errors from the Realtek driver. If you see those you might try the alternative driver: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/135850/official-realtek-driver-binary-1-95-for-2-4-4-release

If it's still responding to ping though that may not be the issue. Really need console access to see what's happening.

Steve

A Former User · May 20, 2019, 7:54 AM

I tried the driver but no luck. just kernel panic.....???
Anyway, is there a way i could use a serial to usb for serial console?
I tried uplcom and it works, but im not sure how to connect it to the serial console.
cheerz

A Former User · May 20, 2019, 1:01 PM

Finaly i got the serial console working and found out there is a watchdog timeout of the realtek chip
re0: watchdog timeout
re0: link state changed to DOWN
re0.1: link state changed to DOWN
re0.1001: link state changed to DOWN
re0.3001: link state changed to DOWN
bridge0: link state changed to DOWN
re0: link state changed to UP
re0.1: link state changed to UP
re0.1001: link state changed to UP
re0.3001: link state changed to UP
bridge0: link state changed to UP

How can i fix it?

stephenw10 · May 20, 2019, 1:18 PM

The only fix for that I'm aware of is using the alternative driver. Other than swapping out the NIC which obviously isn't an option here.

I would post in the driver thread and see if anyone else has seen the same issues as you.

Steve

A Former User · May 20, 2019, 1:20 PM

I tried it again, now it works....
Not sure what happened...
Maybee the reinstall from scratch helped...
Thank you

stephenw10 · May 20, 2019, 1:21 PM

Ah, nice! Fingers crossed that fixes the timeout issue.

Steve