On 2014-Apr-20, at 12:33 AM, Volker Kuhlmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ever since upgrading to pfsense 2.1 I have been let down by it. It looks > like there are multiple issues and I am trying to separate them. One is > system suicide by memory gobbling - but it's been a little tricky to > find out why exactly. > > <snip'd> > > Sun 4-port Ethernet NIC > hme0: <Sun HME 10/100 Ethernet> mem 0x46000000-0x46007fff irq 21 at device > 0.1 on pci3 > miibus2: <MII bus> on hme0 > ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 1 on miibus2 > ukphy0: none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > hme0: [ITHREAD] > [and 3 more of these] > > <snip'd> > > How can I get this pfsense box back into the same reliable and > dependable system it used to be before 2.1? > > Any suggestions appreciated. Happy to provide more info too - but where > do I start looking? > > Thanks muchly, > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann > http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > _______________________________________________ I reported this issue with the HME's a while ago (it's nasty!): bug #3481 -- https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/3481 Executive summary: replace the NIC with a different model. Too bad, they used to work very well and virtually never die. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
