Is it even possible?
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Installed pfsense last week on a 5 year old AMD. Was working great, until it wasn't. PC was "ticking" when I went to check on it, popped the case open and nasty burnt smell from the processor area. No boot, no post.
This happened less than 10 mins after I had set up a guest Lan (not vlan) on igb3 and set a rule to pass to vpn. To be clear the burn is not coming from the network card. I hope the ssds are ok so I can put them in another box...
Is it even possible to cause a meltdown with bad rules?
Cheers
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no impossible
it was only time for his death -
Indeed, there is no way to cause a hardware problem with firewall rules.
That is an ex-motherboard!
Steve
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Thanks, I really didn't think so but thought possible a loop might spike CPU and leave it at 100. New mobo it is. Cheers
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@tiwing Possible fan fault cooked the processor!!
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Yeah looks like that. I've decided to try and figure out HA in VMs on unraid... just for fun. One is working perfectly, now on to the HA setup :) cheers.