<![CDATA[FIREWALL hung up daily (sporadic)]]>Hi,

I have a big problem. We are a new Startup and using pfsense on an ESXi 5.1.0 .

Everything is fine and running stable, But (maybe) if there some (INPUT) traffic the firewall hung up completly.
(Mostly I think if there were some traffic on our owncloud and/or using the NAT-rules for SSH)

  • no webconfigurator
  • no more NAT access
  • everything seems to be down!

Only a complete restart helps to get it working again.

On ESXi Console I can
pfctl -d nd for a short time everything is fine, if the firewall comes up again everything is lost.
/etc/rc.reload_all
/etc/rc.reload_interfaces
ifconfig em0/em1 down/up

didn´t help here.
State Table show NO TCP Connections anymore.

playback enableallowallwan -> works too BUT I don´t like it ;-)

Version 2.0.3-RELEASE (amd64)
built on Fri Apr 12 10:27:49 EDT 2013
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p13

You are on the latest version.

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If you would like to know more about the config - pls tell me.

Thanks and kind regards
Marc

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/60220/firewall-hung-up-daily-sporadicRSS for NodeSat, 14 Mar 2026 22:40:48 GMTWed, 11 Sep 2013 08:33:49 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to FIREWALL hung up daily (sporadic) on Thu, 19 Sep 2013 03:45:03 GMT]]>I think I have the same problem as your only that my is the latest version of pfsense. http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,66646.0.html

I am not sure where the problem is and how to debug this, but it is impossible to use this in a production setup.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/419085https://forum.netgate.com/post/419085Thu, 19 Sep 2013 03:45:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FIREWALL hung up daily (sporadic) on Tue, 17 Sep 2013 06:04:06 GMT]]>What hardware are your running ESXi on and is it patched upto date?

I've put pfsense on a customers dell rack servers with broadcomm quad nics back over Xmas and it runs very well. Using the vswitches and lans and two bridged router/modems one fixed one variable ip which updates to a backup dynadns service.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/418314https://forum.netgate.com/post/418314Tue, 17 Sep 2013 06:04:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to FIREWALL hung up daily (sporadic) on Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:01:32 GMT]]>SORRY - I was wrong

"playback enableallowallwan"
DON´t HELP.

Its the same!
ONLY

SYSTEM -> ADVANCED -> Firewall/Nat
Disable Firewall Disable all packet filtering

works :-(

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/416909https://forum.netgate.com/post/416909Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:01:32 GMT