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    Hot Plug Event / Watchdog on LAN - help

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    • R Offline
      rbrooks8
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      @muswellhillbilly:

      @rbrooks8:

      I'm running 2.0.3-RELEASE version.  Simple setup  with LAN, WAN, and openVPN.

      I would upgrade to the newest release (2.2.4) and see if that solves the problem. 2.0.3 was released over 2 and a half years ago.

      Now I seem to have that problem AND it reboots every 5 or 10 minutes for no apparent reason.

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        doktornotor Banned
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        I think that hardware is ready for its final travel to garbage.

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          muswellhillbilly
          last edited by

          I agree with Dok. Give it a vikings funeral.

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            rbrooks8
            last edited by

            I'm ok with that if that's the case, but should I be looking at switches or cables as well?

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              muswellhillbilly
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              If the hardware is rebooting itself every 5 minutes, then I'd be inclined to blame the tin. I've yet to see a dodgy network cable that could cause a firewall to reboot itself every few minutes. Ask yourself how old the machine is. If the answer is 'over 5 years', then it's time to change it.

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                rbrooks8
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                I got a crash dump.  Any interest in looking at it?

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                  rbrooks8
                  last edited by

                  Well, swapping out the hardware in full (just popped the hard drive into a whole new chassis) sure helped.  I still got one random drop in the middle of the night tonight, but prior to that from midday Friday until then the only other issue was an ISP modem reboot.

                  Nov 8 00:15:01 kernel: sk1: link state changed to DOWN
                  Nov 8 00:15:01 kernel: sk1: link state changed to UP
                  Nov 8 00:15:01 check_reload_status: Linkup starting sk1
                  Nov 8 00:15:01 check_reload_status: Linkup starting sk1
                  Nov 8 00:15:02 php-fpm: /rc.linkup: Hotplug event detected for LAN(lan) but ignoring since interface is configured with static IP (192.168.168.1 )
                  Nov 8 00:15:02 php-fpm: /rc.linkup: Hotplug event detected for LAN(lan) but ignoring since interface is configured with static IP (192.168.168.1 )
                  Nov 8 00:15:02 php-fpm: /rc.linkup: Hotplug event detected for LAN(lan) but ignoring since interface is configured with static IP (192.168.168.1 )
                  Nov 8 00:15:02 php-fpm: /rc.linkup: Hotplug event detected for LAN(lan) but ignoring since interface is configured with static IP (192.168.168.1 )
                  Nov 8 00:15:02 check_reload_status: rc.newwanip starting sk1
                  Nov 8 00:15:03 php-fpm: /rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: Info: starting on sk1.
                  Nov 8 00:15:03 php-fpm: /rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: Info: starting on sk1.
                  Nov 8 00:15:03 php-fpm: /rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: on (IP address: 192.168.168.1) (interface: LAN[lan]) (real interface: sk1).
                  Nov 8 00:15:03 php-fpm: /rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: on (IP address: 192.168.168.1) (interface: LAN[lan]) (real interface: sk1).
                  Nov 8 00:15:03 check_reload_status: Reloading filter

                  What do you think could be causing 4 hotplug events within seconds like that?

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                    rbrooks8
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                    More of the same, about every half hour the hotplug alert.  At least no more kernel crashes and it comes back online quickly.  I'm swapping out the switches in the next day or so.  Hoping until then that it maintains.

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                      divsys
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                      Did you ever bring that up to the latest release (2.2.5)?

                      Well worth the effort and would get you on a solid footing for troubleshooting (if required at all).

                      -jfp

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                        rbrooks8
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                        @divsys:

                        Did you ever bring that up to the latest release (2.2.5)?

                        Well worth the effort and would get you on a solid footing for troubleshooting (if required at all).

                        Yes, I did that before I swapped the hardware.  Still had the kernel crashes and watchdog nonsense until I swapped the chassis.  Now the only remaining symptom is the LAN hotplug event (and my android clients for OpenVPN quit working).

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