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    CE 2.8.1-RELEASE OpenVPN client connection triggers Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

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      elgranjeff
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      Hello,

      I'm a home user with IT management and networking experience, I'd like to think a bit more than just enough to be dangerous.
      I've built my own router using a dell optiplex 3046 with Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz and 16 GB of DDR 4 that I'm using for my home router.

      I've been working to get my OpenVPN server configured so I can connect remotely and access internal services as if I'm home, but I've found that shortly after establishing a client connection (within a few seconds of getting assigned a tunnel address) I can see the VGA terminal scroll at warp speed for 20-30 seconds before the system reboots.

      I don't know how/where to find any kernel dump or stack trace if there is any, but when I load 1k lines from the system log, I see fatal trap 12 page fault while in kernel mode before the ---<<BOOT>>--- line.

      This may be unrelated, I honestly don't know, but static arp entries are failing "Cannot allocate memory" and unbound also fails to start and logs message:

      [1766093223] unbound[46009:0] warning: setsockopt(..., SO_SNDBUF, ...) was not granted: No buffer space available 
      [1766093223] unbound[46009:0] warning: so-sndbuf 4194304 was not granted. Got 57344. To fix: start with root permissions(linux) or sysctl bigger net.core.wmem_max(linux) or kern.ipc.maxsockbuf(bsd) values. or set so-sndbuf: 0 (use system value). 
      

      But my system has 16GB of RAM, so perhaps I just need to adjust some system tunables, but I'm not very familiar with freebsd.

      I've included the full log since my last boot (there was nothing meaningful before that doesn't get displayed every boot.

      Any assistance or guidance would be appreciated!

      FYI, I'm using a Realtek-based 2.5G NIC for my WAN and I have a chelsio n320-sr dual sfp+ with both interfaces in a LAGG as my LAN with a number of VLANs for various purposes (home services, lab tinkering, etc).

      My interfaces:

      0_WAN 2500Base-T <full-duplex> [redacted]
      1_LAN LAGG Ports: cxgb0 (ACTIVE,COLLECTING,DISTRIBUTING), cxgb1 (ACTIVE,COLLECTING,DISTRIBUTING) 10.0.0.1
      1_LAN_0002_JEFF autoselect 10.0.2.1
      1_LAN_0003_NETWORK autoselect 10.0.3.1
      1_LAN_0010_MANAGEMENT autoselect 10.0.10.1
      1_LAN_0040_PRINT autoselect 10.0.40.1
      1_LAN_0050_SERVICES autoselect 10.0.50.1
      1_LAN_0060_SAN autoselect 10.0.60.1
      1_LAN_0061_SAN_BACKUPS autoselect 10.0.61.1
      1_LAN_0070_IOIT autoselect 10.0.70.1
      1_LAN_1010_HOME autoselect 10.10.10.1
      1_LAN_1020_KIDS autoselect 10.10.20.1
      1_LAN_1030_WORK autoselect 10.10.30.1
      1_LAN_1031_MPULSE_SANDBOX autoselect 10.10.31.1
      1_LAN_1040_GUEST autoselect 10.10.40.1
      1_LAN_1050_GAMES autoselect 10.10.50.1
      1_LAN_2000_SANDBOX autoselect 10.20.0.1
      OVPNS1_ADMIN 10.30.0.1

      To get the WAN interface to be discovered, I've already ran pkg install realtek-re-kmod, and I've added the following to my /boot/loader.conf.local:

      if_re_load="YES"
      if_re_name="/boot/modules/if_re.ko"
      

      I know that everyone says realtek NICs don't perform well under heavy load, but I don't know how to validate those claims yet -- perhaps that will be the case here, but perhaps not.

      I've read that the static arp has caused issues in the past, but this system has far more memory than I can get it to utilize, so I'd rather not remove all of those entires just to test unless it definitely might be the cause. I would much prefer to tweak some tunables to be more generous with my relatively higher-power hardware.

      Here's the log entries since my last boot with my WAN IP redacted.
      2025-12-18-crash-boot-log-sample.txt

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        tinfoilmatt LAYER 8 @elgranjeff
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        @elgranjeff What do you have for these settings under System / Advanced / Networking / Network Interfaces:

        65a91618-f7be-43eb-8453-28c8db726b17-image.png

        This feels like an unsavory suggestion for a wait-and-see-if-it-happens-again, elusive-type crash. But I'd suggest matching those settings (i.e., checkboxes checked) if not already.

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          elgranjeff @tinfoilmatt
          last edited by elgranjeff

          @tinfoilmatt I just now (before seeing this message, actually) checked all three of those boxes to see if it would help, but it hasn't helped.

          This is actually a very consistently triggered issue. Using my laptop connected to my phone's hotspot (phone is on 5G, wifi disabled) I establish an openvpn connection and the system crashes.

          I also removed all of my static arp entries because I was tired of seeing those errors on boot (though that may be worth investigating on it's own)

          Unbound is not able to load on boot and I see this in the general system log in the web GUI (I formatted the quoted error string for readability)

          Dec 18 16:29:55 	php-cgi 	593  rc.bootup: The command '/usr/local/sbin/unbound -c /var/unbound/unbound.conf' returned exit code '1', the output was '
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] warning: setsockopt(..., SO_SNDBUF, ...) was not granted: No buffer space available 
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] warning: so-sndbuf 4194304 was not granted. Got 57344. To fix: start with root permissions(linux) or sysctl bigger net.core.wmem_max(linux) or kern.ipc.maxsockbuf(bsd) values. or set so-sndbuf: 0 (use system value). 
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] warning: setsockopt(..., SO_SNDBUF, ...) was not granted: No buffer space available 
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] warning: so-sndbuf 4194304 was not granted. Got 57344. To fix: start with root permissions(linux) or sysctl bigger net.core.wmem_max(linux) or kern.ipc.maxsockbuf(bsd) values. or set so-sndbuf: 0 (use system value). 
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] warning: setsockopt(..., SO_SNDBUF, ...) was not granted: No buffer space available 
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] warning: so-sndbuf 4194304 was not granted. Got 57344. To fix: start with root permissions(linux) or sysctl bigger net.core.wmem_max(linux) or kern.ipc.maxsockbuf(bsd) values. or set so-sndbuf: 0 (use system value). 
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] warning: setsockopt(..., SO_SNDBUF, ...) was not granted: No buffer space available 
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] warning: so-sndbuf 4194304 was not granted. Got 57344. To fix: start with root permissions(linux) or sysctl bigger net.core.wmem_max(linux) or kern.ipc.maxsockbuf(bsd) values. or set so-sndbuf: 0 (use system value). 
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] warning: setsockopt(..., SO_SNDBUF, ...) was not granted: No buffer space available 
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] warning: so-sndbuf 4194304 was not granted. Got 57344. To fix: start with root permissions(linux) or sysctl bigger net.core.wmem_max(linux) or kern.ipc.maxsockbuf(bsd) values. or set so-sndbuf: 0 (use system value). 
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] warning: setsockopt(..., SO_SNDBUF, ...) was not granted: No buffer space available 
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] warning: so-sndbuf 4194304 was not granted. Got 57344. To fix: start with root permissions(linux) or sysctl bigger net.core.wmem_max(linux) or kern.ipc.maxsockbuf(bsd) values. or set so-sndbuf: 0 (use system value). 
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] warning: setsockopt(..., SO_SNDBUF, ...) was not granted: No buffer space available 
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] warning: so-sndbuf 4194304 was not granted. Got 57344. To fix: start with root permissions(linux) or sysctl bigger net.core.wmem_max(linux) or kern.ipc.maxsockbuf(bsd) values. or set so-sndbuf: 0 (use system value). 
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] error: can't bind socket: Can't assign requested address for fe80::207:43ff:fe0a:8964 port 53 
          [1766104183] unbound[8190:0] fatal error: could not open ports'
          
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            tinfoilmatt LAYER 8 @elgranjeff
            last edited by

            @elgranjeff Can you post an updated boot log?

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              elgranjeff @tinfoilmatt
              last edited by

              @tinfoilmatt, thanks again for reviewing this with me! 🙏

              Do you want a log from the point of a normal reboot or do you want to see the log when the crash is triggered by establishing an OpenVPN connection?

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                tinfoilmatt LAYER 8 @elgranjeff
                last edited by

                @elgranjeff Same as you did in your first post—trigger the crash and then post subsequent boot log containing the kernel panic/crash details.

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                  elgranjeff @tinfoilmatt
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                  @tinfoilmatt Thanks for confirming. I triggered the error just now and I've included the boot log starting with the last entry before triggering the crash.

                  2025-12-19-10-54-11-crash-boot-log.txt

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                    tinfoilmatt LAYER 8 @elgranjeff
                    last edited by

                    @elgranjeff MUCH cleaner without those static ARP entries, so that's good. Let me see if anything else catches my eye now.

                    What I can see right off the rip is that something related to your WAN interface...

                    Dec 19 10:56:59 	kernel 		current process = 0 (re1 taskq)
                    

                    ...is specifically what's triggering the kernel panic. There's a buncha 'Google-able' stuff in that pre----<<BOOT>>--- section alone.

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                      tinfoilmatt LAYER 8 @elgranjeff
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                      @elgranjeff The 2.5 GbE Realtek NIC is a discrete card, correct? Can you confirm a model number?

                      I still see...

                      Dec 19 10:56:59 	kernel 		re1: Using defaults for TSO: 65518/35/2048
                      

                      ...which indicates to me that the system is still configured to use TCP segmentation hardware offloading. Do you have any system tunables custom configured?

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                        tinfoilmatt LAYER 8 @elgranjeff
                        last edited by

                        @elgranjeff Notice also that something different is happening with the Chelsio NICs when they come up:

                        [ . . . ]
                        Dec 19 10:56:59 	kernel 		cxgb0: tso4 disabled due to -txcsum.
                        Dec 19 10:56:59 	kernel 		cxgb0: tso6 disabled due to -txcsum6.
                        [ . . . ]
                        Dec 19 10:57:00 	kernel 		cxgb1: tso4 disabled due to -txcsum.
                        Dec 19 10:57:00 	kernel 		cxgb1: tso6 disabled due to -txcsum6.
                        [ . . . ]
                        
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                          elgranjeff @tinfoilmatt
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                          @tinfoilmatt Yeah.. that doesn't bode well.. maybe I'll need to get a proper 2.5G NIC after trying the cheapest one I could find 😁 and finding out for myself.

                          Yeah, I see that apic id = 06 suggests a potential CPU/Memory hardware failure.. I can run some hardware tests.

                          Regarding System Tunables, I have these lines added to my /boot/loader.conf.local

                          if_re_load="YES"
                          if_re_name="/boot/modules/if_re.ko"
                          

                          And via the web gui I set kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=4194304 because it was at a slightly lower value previously and unbound would crash every time i started it -- googling (I don't have the url linked) showed some post somewhere where someone did a bit of math suggesting 4194304, but I can't find my source for that.

                          Is there a way to determine from the GUI which tunables have been adjusted away from defaults?

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                            elgranjeff @tinfoilmatt
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                            @tinfoilmatt my guess (otherwise, I have no idea) is that it's related to those three checkboxes you referenced above to disabled hardware offloading -- I can confirm that those are checked in my current configuration.

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                              tinfoilmatt LAYER 8 @elgranjeff
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                              @elgranjeff Can you post the output of kldstat and pkg info realtek-re-kmod?

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                                tinfoilmatt LAYER 8
                                last edited by tinfoilmatt

                                Also looks like net.inet.tcp.tso may be a System Tunable included by-default under System / Advanced / System Tunables.

                                I'd say it's worth flipping to 0, rebooting, and attempting the OVPN connection to see if the crash is triggered—if only to potentially rule this line of troubleshooting out completely.

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                                  elgranjeff @tinfoilmatt
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                                  @tinfoilmatt

                                  # kldstat
                                  Id Refs Address                Size Name
                                   1   34 0xffffffff80200000  2dc8ee0 kernel
                                   2    1 0xffffffff82fca000   60a278 zfs.ko
                                   3    1 0xffffffff835d5000   11eda0 if_re.ko
                                   4    1 0xffffffff836f4000    1e2a8 opensolaris.ko
                                   5    1 0xffffffff847f9000     23a0 cpuctl.ko
                                   6    1 0xffffffff847fc000     2110 pchtherm.ko
                                   7    1 0xffffffff847ff000     4250 ichsmb.ko
                                   8    1 0xffffffff84804000     2178 smbus.ko
                                   9    1 0xffffffff84807000     9290 aesni.ko
                                  10    1 0xffffffff84811000     4b18 cryptodev.ko
                                  11    1 0xffffffff84816000     20f0 coretemp.ko
                                  
                                  # pkg info realtek-re-kmod
                                  realtek-re-kmod-1100.00.1500029_1
                                  Name           : realtek-re-kmod
                                  Version        : 1100.00.1500029_1
                                  Installed on   : Sun Dec  7 12:41:26 2025 PST
                                  Origin         : net/realtek-re-kmod
                                  Architecture   : FreeBSD:15:amd64
                                  Prefix         : /usr/local
                                  Categories     : net kld
                                  Licenses       : BSD4CLAUSE
                                  Maintainer     : ale@FreeBSD.org
                                  WWW            : https://github.com/alexdupre/rtl_bsd_drv
                                  Comment        : Kernel driver for Realtek PCIe Ethernet Controllers
                                  Annotations    :
                                  	FreeBSD_version: 1500029
                                  	build_timestamp: 2025-09-09T15:50:36+00:00
                                  	built_by       : poudriere-git-3.4.99.20250601
                                  	repo_type      : binary
                                  	repository     : pfSense
                                  Flat size      : 1.12MiB
                                  Description    :
                                  Realtek PCIe FE / GBE / 2.5G / 5G Ethernet Family Controller
                                  kernel driver.
                                  
                                  This is the official driver from Realtek with a few patches to
                                  improve stability and performance. It can be loaded instead of
                                  the FreeBSD driver built into the GENERIC kernel if you experience
                                  issues with it (eg. watchdog timeouts), or your card is not supported.
                                  
                                  Supported devices:
                                  
                                  * 5G Gigabit Ethernet
                                    - RTL8126
                                  
                                  * 2.5G Gigabit Ethernet
                                    - RTL8125 / RTL8125B(G)
                                  
                                  * 10/100/1000M Gigabit Ethernet
                                    - RTL8111B / RTL8111C / RTL8111D / RTL8111E / RTL8111F / RTL8111G
                                      RTL8111H / RTL8118(A) / RTL8119i / RTL8111L / RTL8111K
                                    - RTL8168B / RTL8168E / RTL8168H
                                    - RTL8111DP / RTL8111EP(P) / RTL8111FP
                                    - RTL8411 / RTL8411B
                                  
                                  * 10/100M Fast Ethernet
                                    - RTL8101E / RTL8102E / RTL8103E / RTL8105E / RTL8106E / RTL8107E
                                    - RTL8401 / RTL8402
                                  
                                  See also: https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/network-interface-controllers-10-100-1000m-gigabit-ethernet-pci-express-software
                                  
                                  
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                                    elgranjeff @tinfoilmatt
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                                    @tinfoilmatt can confirm that net.inet.tcp.tso was set to 1. I set it to 0, rebooted, confirmed that the tunable was still 0 at boot, then successfully triggered the crash again.

                                    Unbound is still unhappy and needs to be manually started after each boot regardless of whether it was due to a crash or graceful reboot.

                                    Here's the log after the crash:
                                    Dec 19 11 47 22 syslogd.txt

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                                      tinfoilmatt LAYER 8 @elgranjeff
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                                      @elgranjeff Nothing relevant in any other logging (System and OpenVPN in particular) captured in the immediate lead-up to crash?

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                                        elgranjeff @tinfoilmatt
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                                        @tinfoilmatt nothing interesting to my knowledge. Admittedly I'm in a bit over my head, but I find immersion with assistance from experienced peers to be super beneficial.

                                        Here's the leadup to the latest boot including the page fault that I included in my previous post with logs for posterity:

                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	kernel 		done.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	sshguard 	21140 	Exiting on signal.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	sshguard 	17662 	Exiting on signal.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	syslogd 		exiting on signal 15
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	syslogd 		kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	sshguard 	87014 	Now monitoring attacks.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	php-fpm 	443 	/rc.start_packages: Restarting/Starting all packages.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	php-fpm 	443 	/rc.start_packages: Starting service avahi
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	root 	54557 	Bootup complete
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	Found user 'avahi' (UID 558) and group 'avahi' (GID 558).
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	Successfully dropped root privileges.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	avahi-daemon 0.8 starting up.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	No service file found in /usr/local/etc/avahi/services.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	Joining mDNS multicast group on interface lagg0.1010.IPv6 with address fe80::207:43ff:fe0a:8964.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	New relevant interface lagg0.1010.IPv6 for mDNS.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	Joining mDNS multicast group on interface lagg0.1010.IPv4 with address 10.10.10.1.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	New relevant interface lagg0.1010.IPv4 for mDNS.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	Joining mDNS multicast group on interface lagg0.70.IPv6 with address fe80::207:43ff:fe0a:8964.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	New relevant interface lagg0.70.IPv6 for mDNS.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	Joining mDNS multicast group on interface lagg0.70.IPv4 with address 10.0.70.1.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	New relevant interface lagg0.70.IPv4 for mDNS.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	Joining mDNS multicast group on interface lagg0.40.IPv6 with address fe80::207:43ff:fe0a:8964.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	New relevant interface lagg0.40.IPv6 for mDNS.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	Joining mDNS multicast group on interface lagg0.40.IPv4 with address 10.0.40.1.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	New relevant interface lagg0.40.IPv4 for mDNS.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	Network interface enumeration completed.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:18 	avahi-daemon 	39710 	Server startup complete. Host name is pfsense.local. Local service cookie is 38507700.
                                        Dec 19 11:44:20 	login 	21031 	login on ttyv0 as root
                                        Dec 19 11:44:20 	login 	22698 	login on ttyu0 as root
                                        Dec 19 11:44:37 	php-fpm 	442 	/index.php: Successful login for user 'jeff' from: 10.0.2.101 (Local Database)
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	syslogd 		kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		cpuid = 3; apic id = 06
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		fault virtual address = 0x10007
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		fault code = supervisor read data, page not present
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		instruction pointer = 0x20:0xffffffff80e3e390
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		stack pointer = 0x28:0xfffffe00d5fd3d30
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		frame pointer = 0x28:0xfffffe00d5fd3d70
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		= DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		current process = 0 (re1 taskq)
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		rdi: 0000000000000002 rsi: 000000000000ffff rdx: 0000000000000001
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		rcx: 0000000000000001 r8: 0000000000000001 r9: 0000000000000002
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		rax: 0000000000000000 rbx: fffff80102a2b000 rbp: fffffe00d5fd3d70
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		r10: 00000000a6c5e4be r11: 0000000043a38fb0 r12: 000000000000ffff
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		r13: fffffe00d93949c0 r14: 0000000000000000 r15: 0000000000008803
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		trap number = 12
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		panic: page fault
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		cpuid = 3
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		time = 1766173573
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		KDB: enter: panic
                                        Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		---<<BOOT>>--- 
                                        
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                                          tinfoilmatt LAYER 8 @elgranjeff
                                          last edited by tinfoilmatt

                                          @elgranjeff Nothing remarkable comparing the two. And the Using defaults for TSO line (which may be a red herring) appears even after that tunable change. Just to keep stock—that's the only change we've made so far. Easy enough to revert back.

                                          Was there anything in particular that led you to install the custom Realtek driver? Just wondering aloud if the crash would still occur without it loaded and utilizing the generic driver.

                                          What's the Realtek NIC model?

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                                            tinfoilmatt LAYER 8 @elgranjeff
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                                            @elgranjeff What's in the OpenVPN log? Curious how far along that's getting before crash.

                                            The line...

                                            Dec 19 11:47:22 	kernel 		current process = 0 (re1 taskq)
                                            

                                            ...points squarely at that NIC. That's been consistent.

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