I had an odd one today. For some reason, our WAN interface changed its IP to 
0.0.0.0 with a NM of 255.0.0.0. Needless to say, we lost all of our IPSec 
tunnels in the process along with web access. Checking the WAN interface 
configuration page, I saw that the IP was properly configured there, but the 
dashboard had the all 0's IP address, and the ARP table didn't show any entry 
at all for the WAN interface. 

I was able to able to get the interface back by rebooting the box (only later 
to realize I probably could have used ifconfig to bounce the interface) and 
everything came back. It just sucks that I had to do that. 

I saw on the forums that someone had a similar problem when they ran out of 
MBUF's, but that wasn't our issue, as per the info that I pulled from netstat 
and a few other commands (while we had the problem): 

kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 25600 

Mem: 247M Active, 90M Inact, 133M Wired, 48K Cache, 112M Buf, 1510M Free 

2311/1571/3882/25600 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max) 

The NIC in question is an Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 7.2.3 model: 

em1@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00008086 chip=0x10d38086 rev=0x00 
hdr=0x00 
class = network 
subclass = ethernet 

Anyone else run into this before? I'd like to find a fix before it happens 
again. 



Kenny Armstrong Systems Engineer, KyroneX 

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