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    PfSense crash when using 'Maximum new connections / per second(s)'

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      Konan
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      We tend to have Microsoft RDP open to the outside world. Due to the fact it attracts a lot of brute force attempts I haven't used the 'Maximum new connections / per second(s)' advanced rule in the firewall to ban IPs that keep trying to connect (I believe Windows boots them after 10 password attempts). This is set to 6/60 seconds, which appears to be effective. I have also modified the job that clears the list to the following

      *  *  *  *  *  root  /usr/bin/nice -n20 /usr/local/sbin/expiretable -v -t 150 virusprot

      When this setting is in place, the memory usage of the firewall appears to creep up. Eventually, the firewall will crash and log the following:

      Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
      cpuid = 2; apic id = 02
      fault virtual address        = 0x8
      fault code                            = supervisor read, page not present

      The latest version that I have observed this behaviour on is:

      2.1-BETA0 (i386)
      built on Fri Nov 23 18:55:05 EST 2012

      I've tried a few searches and not found any mention of this. Is this anticipated behaviour or should it be reported as a bug? If so, are there any further details that would help narrow down this issue?

      Thanks in advance.

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        Konan
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        Additional: I have observed this behaviour on 3 pfSense firewalls. i386 install. Two hardware with intel NICs and one virtual on ESXi.

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          cmb
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          Did you submit crash report(s)? If not, please do. If so, let me know what public IP they came from (via PM with a link to this thread is fine if you don't want to list publicly).

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