----- "Raimund Sacherer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I installed on the weekend our new firewall system. It consists of two Dell > R210 with intel (igb) 2-port interface cards. > > The old system was 2.0-RELEASE. > > We have 11 Gateways configured, it's a mix of WAN's and LAN-Type > interconnects with 2 other companys. We have a couple of ADSL's, a 10Mbit > fiber and 2 100Mbit fiber WAN's. > > The apinger works perfectly on the 2.0-RELEASE. > > In the 2.1-RELEASE I have the following problems: > > On Sunday I made the switch and I noticed that all gateways are marked as > down, with status first pending, then unknown. > In the logs I have a message which says that all gateways can not be > contacted and they are assumed online. > > Now without the apinger working correctly I did not configure the 2nd > Firewall out of fear that there will be problems and I deactivated gateway > monitoring. > > > > In the last two days I played around with the 2nd Firewall and I noticed > this: > > up to 4 interfaces/gateways configured (out of the 11) everything works fine, > I see stable behavior in the gatway section on the dashboard. > Then I added one interface more and I sasw problems in the dashboard, the > lines went from online to unknown/pending. When I deactivated the last > interface all went online again. I did not investigate further as I had to > go. > > (after a couple of activate/deactivate I had problems that activating the > interface in the GUI and clicking save/apply did not configure the interface, > ifconfig said it was simply not there, I had to execute > /etc/rc.interfaces_opt_configure to get everything configured again, not sure > if this can occur if you have lot's of tabs open to the firewall or if there > is another configuration/GUI bug). > > > Today I configured 1 more interface and with 6 interfaces I see something > really weird. The dashboard shows me that all lines are online (with RTT > times which seem reasonable) for around 8 seconds, then it shows me unknown > for about 20-30 seconds, then online for around 8 seconds again, then unknown > .... > > it seems the more interfaces you configure, the weirder get's the apinger > behavior. > > I tried to copy the apinger from the 2.0-RELEASE and use it, but it also did > not work as expected. > > > I hope someone can find out what's wrong with apinger, because it definitly > *is* a problem, I have seen a couple of people in the forums, and I think at > least 2 bug - reports, maybe it does not occur if you have only a couple of > WAN's. > > > Tomorrow I will try to see if I can install the 2.0-RELEASE on this machine > (I hope it can support the new hardware) because 2.0 was rock-solid for me > (we had the FW with an uptime of 895 days without any signs of trouble). > > I fear a little an upgrade to 2.1.1-RELEASE because there seems to be quite > some troubling problems with this release as well ... :-( > > > Thank you, > Best regards, > > Raimund
Hello, to confirm, today I installed 2.0-RELEASE and I do not have any apinger issues! I am available for testing and if someone need more detailed information about the nic's, config etc. We also bought support and I think I have a couple of hours left, which I would be willing to spend towards resolving this problem, Best Ray _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
