I don't have a soekris card but I have the brand 'Dell' in common, maybe your problems are similar to mine....
I have two new Dell PE 850's, which I can make crash very easily by stuffing around changing IP addresses on interfaces etc. The most common problem seems to be when I set an interface to down change the IP address or something and enable it, the interface simply doesn't come up, or the server crashes. Sometimes if I try and reboot it comes up ok, other times it won't because the config.xml is missing, so it's a bit more complex. Also adding a CARP VIP from a subnet other than the subnet of the interface is a sure way of turning things to custard. However I know now I shouldn't be trying this. We have 2 x Intel PRO/1000 PT PCIe dual port Gigabit NIC's (82571EB controller) in each server - no other unusual cards. I thought it might be the driver, PCIe being quite new and all. Simon. -----Original Message----- From: Vivek Khera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 17 March 2006 4:56 a.m. To: support@pfsense.com Subject: [pfSense Support] lockups continue I'm still observing lockups which appears to happen more often during times when I'm connected to the VPN via mobile user from my Mac laptop. Once it happened at another time. I'm running beta2 on a Dell PE800. It has otherwise been very stable. The only thing I've changed during the entire time I've been running pfsense (since September '05) is to add a soekris vpn1401 card. I'm leaning towards that being the culprit. I don't see them at all on a WRAP box running m0n0wall with the mini- pci version (vpn1411) of the same card. This leads me to believe it is either a bad card or FreeBSD 6.x driver for hifn is faulty. Anyone else seeing lockups with the soekris vpn PCI card? Ideally, I'd like to get an image with either the debugger enabled or the kernel software watchdog so it will just reset itself (presuming it is not totally locked). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
