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.

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