RE: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing Needed

2009-04-29 Thread Dimitri Rodis 
Currently, we have a couple of people (including myself just Monday) that
were able to reproduce watchdog timeouts on these units, although they seem
to be significantly reduced relative to previous builds. I am still working
with Pyun to try and get the issue resolved. Of course, we won't know that
it's fully resolved without people willing to beat these units up after
patches make their way into builds, so the more people we have, the better.

Folks interested in trying to narrow the remaining issues down should follow
(and post) on the forum, here:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,15669.0.html

Thanks,

Dimitri Rodis
Integrita Systems LLC 
http://www.integritasystems.com

-Original Message-
From: Joshua Schmidlkofer [mailto:joshl...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:23 PM
To: support@pfsense.com; j...@pax2cargo.com
Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing
Needed

On 4/18/09 11:17 AM, Dimitri Rodis wrote:
> Attention Firebox X500/700/1000 Users using pfSense:
>
>
>
> Watchdog timeouts getting' you down? Thinkin' about throwin' that old
> Firebox in to the fireplace? Don't do that just yet! J
>
>
>
> Thanks to the pfSense devs, along with Pyun YongHyeon, the maintainer for
> the FreeBSD Realtek network driver, it appears that we may have solved the
> issue with the watchdog timeouts on the Realtek 8139C+ chips that are used
> in these units. For the past couple of days, I have worked with Pyun, and
> yesterday Pyun sent me a patch, and that patch was committed to the 1.2.3
> snapshot builds, as well as to the 2.0 alpha snapshot builds by the
pfSense
> devs, and is part of any snapshot build as of yesterday (4/17) at 2pm
> Eastern time, or later.
>
>
>
> Snapshot builds can be downloaded from
>
> http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/RELENG_1_2/
>
> or
>
> http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/HEAD/
>
>
>
> I have been testing a build with this patch since yesterday, and have yet
to
> see a single watchdog timeout on my interfaces-and no modifications to
> loader.conf have been made. This is a default install-no special options
> have been set anywhere.
>
>
>
> If at all possible, please try to install a recent snapshot build on your
> firebox units (those of you that have them) and test this patch.  If you
do
> still receive watchdog timeouts, please let me know either on this list,
or
> off-list. Either way, please try to detail what you were doing when the
> watchdog timeout occurred so that we can try to reproduce it, and Pyun can
> fix it.
>
>
>
> Thanks to all that have helped, and thanks to those that are willing to
> test!
>
>
>
> Dimitri Rodis
>
> Integrita Systems LLC
>
>   <http://www.integritasystems.com>  http://www.integritasystems.com
>
>
>
>
>
HOT!  We are so looking into this.  We have 5 watchguards which we can 
use for this project, and I hate the idea of them collecting dust.  
Count us IN!

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Re: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing Needed

2009-04-28 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer 

On 4/18/09 11:17 AM, Dimitri Rodis wrote:

Attention Firebox X500/700/1000 Users using pfSense:



Watchdog timeouts getting' you down? Thinkin' about throwin' that old
Firebox in to the fireplace? Don't do that just yet! J



Thanks to the pfSense devs, along with Pyun YongHyeon, the maintainer for
the FreeBSD Realtek network driver, it appears that we may have solved the
issue with the watchdog timeouts on the Realtek 8139C+ chips that are used
in these units. For the past couple of days, I have worked with Pyun, and
yesterday Pyun sent me a patch, and that patch was committed to the 1.2.3
snapshot builds, as well as to the 2.0 alpha snapshot builds by the pfSense
devs, and is part of any snapshot build as of yesterday (4/17) at 2pm
Eastern time, or later.



Snapshot builds can be downloaded from

http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/RELENG_1_2/

or

http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/HEAD/



I have been testing a build with this patch since yesterday, and have yet to
see a single watchdog timeout on my interfaces-and no modifications to
loader.conf have been made. This is a default install-no special options
have been set anywhere.



If at all possible, please try to install a recent snapshot build on your
firebox units (those of you that have them) and test this patch.  If you do
still receive watchdog timeouts, please let me know either on this list, or
off-list. Either way, please try to detail what you were doing when the
watchdog timeout occurred so that we can try to reproduce it, and Pyun can
fix it.



Thanks to all that have helped, and thanks to those that are willing to
test!



Dimitri Rodis

Integrita Systems LLC

    http://www.integritasystems.com




   
HOT!  We are so looking into this.  We have 5 watchguards which we can 
use for this project, and I hate the idea of them collecting dust.  
Count us IN!


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RE: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing Needed

2009-04-24 Thread Andrew Cotter 
 > -Original Message-
> From: cbuech...@gmail.com [mailto:cbuech...@gmail.com] On 
> Behalf Of Chris Buechler
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 1:12 PM
> To: support@pfsense.com
> Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series 
> Users - Testing Needed
> 
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Andrew Cotter 
>  wrote:
> > Is there an update path from 1.2.2 to 1.2.3-RC1 embedded?
> 
> Not a guaranteed reliable one. You can grab an embedded 
> update file off the snapshot server but it may blow up.
> 
> That'll be resolved with the new embedded that's on the way, 
> including a 1.2.x release, though post-1.2.3.
>

Thanks.  I'll fire up one of the extra ones we have to test it.

Andrew



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Re: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing Needed

2009-04-24 Thread Chris Buechler 
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Andrew Cotter
 wrote:
> Is there an update path from 1.2.2 to 1.2.3-RC1 embedded?

Not a guaranteed reliable one. You can grab an embedded update file
off the snapshot server but it may blow up.

That'll be resolved with the new embedded that's on the way, including
a 1.2.x release, though post-1.2.3.

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Re: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing Needed

2009-04-24 Thread Vick Khera 
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Andrew Cotter
 wrote:
> Is there an update path from 1.2.2 to 1.2.3-RC1 embedded?  I only see Full
> images on the mirrors.  I can do a backup/swap CF/restore, but the box I was
> going to test on is 120 miles away.

I have not had a successful embedded in-place upgrade since version
1.0.mumble (or perhaps earlier...)  I always expect I will need to
re-flash, and I always end up having to re-flash if i try the in-place
upgrade.

Your best bet is to try the upgrade via the ssh (or serial) console.

For our remote office which is *very* far away, we usually make a new
CF card with the config pre-loaded on a test box we have here, then
ship it to them for swapping.  This has worked great the last three
major upgrades we did.

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RE: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing Needed

2009-04-24 Thread Andrew Cotter 
Is there an update path from 1.2.2 to 1.2.3-RC1 embedded?  I only see Full
images on the mirrors.  I can do a backup/swap CF/restore, but the box I was
going to test on is 120 miles away.  

I have a pile of the X500 boxes here and would love to deploy them, but the
watchdog timeouts are killing me.  Thanks for working on this!

Thanks,

Andrew



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AW: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing Needed

2009-04-23 Thread Fuchs, Martin 
As far as i know the fireboxes support single-sided dimms with 512 mb...

1gb is recognized as 512mb only :-(

Regards,

martin

-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: Tim Nelson [mailto:tnel...@fudnet.net] 
Gesendet: Freitag, 24. April 2009 04:43
An: support@pfsense.com
Betreff: Re: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing Needed

Well, I threw the latest 1.2.3-RC1 on a CF card and booted up my X500. 
I've been passing all sorts of traffic through it (WAN and OPT1 bridge) 
with no pauses in traffic or watchdog timeouts. My traffic has been 
anything from netperf tests TCP and UDP, raw FTP traffic, random web 
browsing, and some very heavy bittorrent traffic (Latest Ubuntu released 
today :-) ). In fact, I've run some of those tests concurrently.

Thus far, after saturating the 100mbit link through the bridge for 
nearly 4 hours, I've yet to see a problem. I can post any additional 
information you need, just let me know. This X500 is 100% stock with the 
exception of the CF card. The 64MB CF was a bit small so it was replaced 
with a Sandisk 256MB I had lying around.

Out of curiosity, what is the largest DIMM these units will accept? They 
come with 256MB which seems a bit light. I'd like to throw a 1GB stick 
in if possible.

--Tim

Dimitri Rodis wrote:
> Attention Firebox X500/700/1000 Users using pfSense:
> 
>  
> 
> Watchdog timeouts getting' you down? Thinkin' about throwin' that old 
> Firebox in to the fireplace? Don't do that just yet! J
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks to the pfSense devs, along with Pyun YongHyeon, the maintainer 
> for the FreeBSD Realtek network driver, it appears that we may have 
> solved the issue with the watchdog timeouts on the Realtek 8139C+ chips 
> that are used in these units. For the past couple of days, I have worked 
> with Pyun, and yesterday Pyun sent me a patch, and that patch was 
> committed to the 1.2.3 snapshot builds, as well as to the 2.0 alpha 
> snapshot builds by the pfSense devs, and is part of any snapshot build 
> as of yesterday (4/17) at 2pm Eastern time, or later.
> 
>  
> 
> Snapshot builds can be downloaded from
> 
> http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/RELENG_1_2/
> 
> or
> 
> http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/HEAD/
> 
>  
> 
> I have been testing a build with this patch since yesterday, and have 
> yet to see a single watchdog timeout on my interfaces-and no 
> modifications to loader.conf have been made. This is a default 
> install-no special options have been set anywhere.
> 
>  
> 
> If at all possible, please try to install a recent snapshot build on 
> your firebox units (those of you that have them) and test this patch. 
>  If you do still receive watchdog timeouts, please let me know either on 
> this list, or off-list. Either way, please try to detail what you were 
> doing when the watchdog timeout occurred so that we can try to reproduce 
> it, and Pyun can fix it.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks to all that have helped, and thanks to those that are willing to 
> test!
> 
>  
> 
> Dimitri Rodis
> 
> Integrita Systems LLC
> 
> http://www.integritasystems.com
> 
>  
> 

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RE: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing Needed

2009-04-23 Thread Dimitri Rodis 
Unfortunately, they aren't completely gone. I've been able to consistently
get watchdog timeouts on 1.2.3 since Monday (including the official RC1
released yesterday) by simply browsing the web interface on the LAN side (I
usually use re2) using Internet Explorer 7 (All I ever do is just click
between options in the GUI, and I get them after 10-15 clicks). The patch
that was put in definitely helped, though (a lot). I'm still working with
Pyun (the maintainer of the FreeBSD Realtek driver) on a solution. I do have
yet to reproduce watchdog timeouts on 2.0, however, although one person has
reported that 2.0 gives him timeouts (see
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=15669). I don't yet have an
explanation as to why I get timeouts in 1.2.3 and not in 2.0, but I'm
working on figuring out why.

Dimitri Rodis
Integrita Systems LLC 
http://www.integritasystems.com


-Original Message-
From: Tim Nelson [mailto:tnel...@fudnet.net] 
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:43 PM
To: support@pfsense.com
Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing
Needed

Well, I threw the latest 1.2.3-RC1 on a CF card and booted up my X500. 
I've been passing all sorts of traffic through it (WAN and OPT1 bridge) 
with no pauses in traffic or watchdog timeouts. My traffic has been 
anything from netperf tests TCP and UDP, raw FTP traffic, random web 
browsing, and some very heavy bittorrent traffic (Latest Ubuntu released 
today :-) ). In fact, I've run some of those tests concurrently.

Thus far, after saturating the 100mbit link through the bridge for 
nearly 4 hours, I've yet to see a problem. I can post any additional 
information you need, just let me know. This X500 is 100% stock with the 
exception of the CF card. The 64MB CF was a bit small so it was replaced 
with a Sandisk 256MB I had lying around.

Out of curiosity, what is the largest DIMM these units will accept? They 
come with 256MB which seems a bit light. I'd like to throw a 1GB stick 
in if possible.

--Tim

Dimitri Rodis wrote:
> Attention Firebox X500/700/1000 Users using pfSense:
> 
>  
> 
> Watchdog timeouts getting' you down? Thinkin' about throwin' that old 
> Firebox in to the fireplace? Don't do that just yet! J
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks to the pfSense devs, along with Pyun YongHyeon, the maintainer 
> for the FreeBSD Realtek network driver, it appears that we may have 
> solved the issue with the watchdog timeouts on the Realtek 8139C+ chips 
> that are used in these units. For the past couple of days, I have worked 
> with Pyun, and yesterday Pyun sent me a patch, and that patch was 
> committed to the 1.2.3 snapshot builds, as well as to the 2.0 alpha 
> snapshot builds by the pfSense devs, and is part of any snapshot build 
> as of yesterday (4/17) at 2pm Eastern time, or later.
> 
>  
> 
> Snapshot builds can be downloaded from
> 
> http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/RELENG_1_2/
> 
> or
> 
> http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/HEAD/
> 
>  
> 
> I have been testing a build with this patch since yesterday, and have 
> yet to see a single watchdog timeout on my interfaces-and no 
> modifications to loader.conf have been made. This is a default 
> install-no special options have been set anywhere.
> 
>  
> 
> If at all possible, please try to install a recent snapshot build on 
> your firebox units (those of you that have them) and test this patch. 
>  If you do still receive watchdog timeouts, please let me know either on 
> this list, or off-list. Either way, please try to detail what you were 
> doing when the watchdog timeout occurred so that we can try to reproduce 
> it, and Pyun can fix it.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks to all that have helped, and thanks to those that are willing to 
> test!
> 
>  
> 
> Dimitri Rodis
> 
> Integrita Systems LLC
> 
> http://www.integritasystems.com
> 
>  
> 

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Re: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing Needed

2009-04-23 Thread Tim Nelson 
Well, I threw the latest 1.2.3-RC1 on a CF card and booted up my X500. 
I've been passing all sorts of traffic through it (WAN and OPT1 bridge) 
with no pauses in traffic or watchdog timeouts. My traffic has been 
anything from netperf tests TCP and UDP, raw FTP traffic, random web 
browsing, and some very heavy bittorrent traffic (Latest Ubuntu released 
today :-) ). In fact, I've run some of those tests concurrently.


Thus far, after saturating the 100mbit link through the bridge for 
nearly 4 hours, I've yet to see a problem. I can post any additional 
information you need, just let me know. This X500 is 100% stock with the 
exception of the CF card. The 64MB CF was a bit small so it was replaced 
with a Sandisk 256MB I had lying around.


Out of curiosity, what is the largest DIMM these units will accept? They 
come with 256MB which seems a bit light. I'd like to throw a 1GB stick 
in if possible.


--Tim

Dimitri Rodis wrote:

Attention Firebox X500/700/1000 Users using pfSense:

 

Watchdog timeouts getting’ you down? Thinkin’ about throwin’ that old 
Firebox in to the fireplace? Don’t do that just yet! J


 

Thanks to the pfSense devs, along with Pyun YongHyeon, the maintainer 
for the FreeBSD Realtek network driver, it appears that we may have 
solved the issue with the watchdog timeouts on the Realtek 8139C+ chips 
that are used in these units. For the past couple of days, I have worked 
with Pyun, and yesterday Pyun sent me a patch, and that patch was 
committed to the 1.2.3 snapshot builds, as well as to the 2.0 alpha 
snapshot builds by the pfSense devs, and is part of any snapshot build 
as of yesterday (4/17) at 2pm Eastern time, or later.


 


Snapshot builds can be downloaded from

http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/RELENG_1_2/

or

http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/HEAD/

 

I have been testing a build with this patch since yesterday, and have 
yet to see a single watchdog timeout on my interfaces—and no 
modifications to loader.conf have been made. This is a default 
install—no special options have been set anywhere.


 

If at all possible, please try to install a recent snapshot build on 
your firebox units (those of you that have them) and test this patch. 
 If you do still receive watchdog timeouts, please let me know either on 
this list, or off-list. Either way, please try to detail what you were 
doing when the watchdog timeout occurred so that we can try to reproduce 
it, and Pyun can fix it.


 

Thanks to all that have helped, and thanks to those that are willing to 
test!


 


Dimitri Rodis

Integrita Systems LLC

http://www.integritasystems.com

 



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Re: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing Needed

2009-04-18 Thread Scott Ullrich 
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Tim Nelson  wrote:
[snip
> BTW, any release date on the horizon for 1.2.3?

When it's done.

Scott

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Re: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing Needed

2009-04-18 Thread Tim Nelson 
This is absolutely fantastic! While I'm not a fan of Realtek NICs, I 
*really* like the Firebox x[5/7/10]00 series hardware. If you look in 
the list archives, you'll see I had done some testing but never had 
anything conclusive. I eventually just threw my X500 on the shelf.


However, I've just blown the dust off and will definitely give this a 
try! Thank you for your work Dimitri, Pyun, and of course the pfSense team!


BTW, any release date on the horizon for 1.2.3?

--Tim



Dimitri Rodis wrote:

Attention Firebox X500/700/1000 Users using pfSense:

 

Watchdog timeouts getting’ you down? Thinkin’ about throwin’ that old 
Firebox in to the fireplace? Don’t do that just yet! J


 

Thanks to the pfSense devs, along with Pyun YongHyeon, the maintainer 
for the FreeBSD Realtek network driver, it appears that we may have 
solved the issue with the watchdog timeouts on the Realtek 8139C+ chips 
that are used in these units. For the past couple of days, I have worked 
with Pyun, and yesterday Pyun sent me a patch, and that patch was 
committed to the 1.2.3 snapshot builds, as well as to the 2.0 alpha 
snapshot builds by the pfSense devs, and is part of any snapshot build 
as of yesterday (4/17) at 2pm Eastern time, or later.


 


Snapshot builds can be downloaded from

http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/RELENG_1_2/

or

http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/HEAD/

 

I have been testing a build with this patch since yesterday, and have 
yet to see a single watchdog timeout on my interfaces—and no 
modifications to loader.conf have been made. This is a default 
install—no special options have been set anywhere.


 

If at all possible, please try to install a recent snapshot build on 
your firebox units (those of you that have them) and test this patch. 
 If you do still receive watchdog timeouts, please let me know either on 
this list, or off-list. Either way, please try to detail what you were 
doing when the watchdog timeout occurred so that we can try to reproduce 
it, and Pyun can fix it.


 

Thanks to all that have helped, and thanks to those that are willing to 
test!


 


Dimitri Rodis

Integrita Systems LLC

http://www.integritasystems.com

 



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RE: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing Needed

2009-04-18 Thread Dimitri Rodis 
Forum link:

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,15669.0.html


Dimitri Rodis
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http://www.integritasystems.com


-Original Message-
From: cbuech...@gmail.com [mailto:cbuech...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Chris
Buechler
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 11:33 AM
To: support@pfsense.com
Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing
Needed

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Dimitri Rodis
 wrote:
> Attention Firebox X500/700/1000 Users using pfSense:
>

Glad to hear that looks like it fixes it. There's at least one thread
on the forum reporting this issue as well, might want to post to those
threads too to give those folks a heads up.


>
>
> Watchdog timeouts getting’ you down? Thinkin’ about throwin’ that old
> Firebox in to the fireplace? Don’t do that just yet! J
>
>
>
> Thanks to the pfSense devs, along with Pyun YongHyeon, the maintainer for
> the FreeBSD Realtek network driver, it appears that we may have solved the
> issue with the watchdog timeouts on the Realtek 8139C+ chips that are used
> in these units. For the past couple of days, I have worked with Pyun, and
> yesterday Pyun sent me a patch, and that patch was committed to the 1.2.3
> snapshot builds, as well as to the 2.0 alpha snapshot builds by the
pfSense
> devs, and is part of any snapshot build as of yesterday (4/17) at 2pm
> Eastern time, or later.
>
>
>
> Snapshot builds can be downloaded from
>
> http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/RELENG_1_2/
>
> or
>
> http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/HEAD/
>
>
>
> I have been testing a build with this patch since yesterday, and have yet
to
> see a single watchdog timeout on my interfaces—and no modifications to
> loader.conf have been made. This is a default install—no special options
> have been set anywhere.
>
>
>
> If at all possible, please try to install a recent snapshot build on your
> firebox units (those of you that have them) and test this patch.  If you
do
> still receive watchdog timeouts, please let me know either on this list,
or
> off-list. Either way, please try to detail what you were doing when the
> watchdog timeout occurred so that we can try to reproduce it, and Pyun can
> fix it.
>
>
>
> Thanks to all that have helped, and thanks to those that are willing to
> test!
>
>
>
> Dimitri Rodis
>
> Integrita Systems LLC
>
> http://www.integritasystems.com
>
>

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Re: [pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing Needed

2009-04-18 Thread Chris Buechler 
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Dimitri Rodis
 wrote:
> Attention Firebox X500/700/1000 Users using pfSense:
>

Glad to hear that looks like it fixes it. There's at least one thread
on the forum reporting this issue as well, might want to post to those
threads too to give those folks a heads up.


>
>
> Watchdog timeouts getting’ you down? Thinkin’ about throwin’ that old
> Firebox in to the fireplace? Don’t do that just yet! J
>
>
>
> Thanks to the pfSense devs, along with Pyun YongHyeon, the maintainer for
> the FreeBSD Realtek network driver, it appears that we may have solved the
> issue with the watchdog timeouts on the Realtek 8139C+ chips that are used
> in these units. For the past couple of days, I have worked with Pyun, and
> yesterday Pyun sent me a patch, and that patch was committed to the 1.2.3
> snapshot builds, as well as to the 2.0 alpha snapshot builds by the pfSense
> devs, and is part of any snapshot build as of yesterday (4/17) at 2pm
> Eastern time, or later.
>
>
>
> Snapshot builds can be downloaded from
>
> http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/RELENG_1_2/
>
> or
>
> http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/HEAD/
>
>
>
> I have been testing a build with this patch since yesterday, and have yet to
> see a single watchdog timeout on my interfaces—and no modifications to
> loader.conf have been made. This is a default install—no special options
> have been set anywhere.
>
>
>
> If at all possible, please try to install a recent snapshot build on your
> firebox units (those of you that have them) and test this patch.  If you do
> still receive watchdog timeouts, please let me know either on this list, or
> off-list. Either way, please try to detail what you were doing when the
> watchdog timeout occurred so that we can try to reproduce it, and Pyun can
> fix it.
>
>
>
> Thanks to all that have helped, and thanks to those that are willing to
> test!
>
>
>
> Dimitri Rodis
>
> Integrita Systems LLC
>
> http://www.integritasystems.com
>
>

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[pfSense Support] Attention Firebox X Series Users - Testing Needed

2009-04-18 Thread Dimitri Rodis 
Attention Firebox X500/700/1000 Users using pfSense:

 

Watchdog timeouts getting' you down? Thinkin' about throwin' that old
Firebox in to the fireplace? Don't do that just yet! J

 

Thanks to the pfSense devs, along with Pyun YongHyeon, the maintainer for
the FreeBSD Realtek network driver, it appears that we may have solved the
issue with the watchdog timeouts on the Realtek 8139C+ chips that are used
in these units. For the past couple of days, I have worked with Pyun, and
yesterday Pyun sent me a patch, and that patch was committed to the 1.2.3
snapshot builds, as well as to the 2.0 alpha snapshot builds by the pfSense
devs, and is part of any snapshot build as of yesterday (4/17) at 2pm
Eastern time, or later.

 

Snapshot builds can be downloaded from 

http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/RELENG_1_2/ 

or 

http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/HEAD/

 

I have been testing a build with this patch since yesterday, and have yet to
see a single watchdog timeout on my interfaces-and no modifications to
loader.conf have been made. This is a default install-no special options
have been set anywhere.

 

If at all possible, please try to install a recent snapshot build on your
firebox units (those of you that have them) and test this patch.  If you do
still receive watchdog timeouts, please let me know either on this list, or
off-list. Either way, please try to detail what you were doing when the
watchdog timeout occurred so that we can try to reproduce it, and Pyun can
fix it.

 

Thanks to all that have helped, and thanks to those that are willing to
test!

 

Dimitri Rodis

Integrita Systems LLC 

  http://www.integritasystems.com

 



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