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    [solved] Broken Pipe Error - now running

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    • Bob.DigB
      Bob.Dig LAYER 8
      last edited by Bob.Dig

      Today I encountered a not only horribly sounding but also horribly being "pipe error" on 22.05-RELEASE.

      I got a new ISP and had to switch WAN from PPPoE to DHCP and while changing the necessary settings, after a reboot pfSense wanted to reconfigure all the interfaces...
      Thankfully I had a backup that I rolled back, this time I made not to much changes at once, also I checked for having a WAN gateway in routing and in the end, it did work.

      Still confused why it didn't went through the first time. Any hint what "broken pipe" means in this context?

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Where did that appear exactly? Do you have a log?

        If it was asking you to re-assign the interfaces it must hve failed the interface check at boot. But that doesn't include sub-interface types like PPPoE so something else must have changed.

        Steve

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        • Bob.DigB
          Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @stephenw10
          last edited by

          @stephenw10 No log left. And I didn't changed the "hardware" at all. That is why I was puzzled. Later I will describe what I did, maybe it is of interest.

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          • Bob.DigB
            Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @stephenw10
            last edited by

            @stephenw10 Now I am not remembering anymore all the details. 😇

            But what I do remember, the second time, I disabled the bufferbloat limiters because I had heard about pipes in that context. I also made sure that the changed WAN had a gateway set. Maybe that was the difference, I don't know. To tired already.

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            • Bob.DigB
              Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @stephenw10
              last edited by

              @stephenw10 This evening my vm host crashed several times, it looks like a hardware defect, so this topic can be closed.

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              • Bob.DigB
                Bob.Dig LAYER 8
                last edited by Bob.Dig

                @stephenw10 Is there an easy way for checking the file integrity of my whole pfSense installation after I had encountered bad RAM on my VM Host?

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Not really unfortunately. None that I'm aware of at least.

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