You misunderstood completely. I added those items AFTER I started having
problems as a diagnostic to eliminate things people would recommend I
try. The BASE HARDWARE was causing this issue. The replacement UNIT you
sent me IS FINE and i'm thankful for reaching a resolution and the old
unit is b
Yudhvir,
I’m just grumpy, because of messages like the below (OP, not you), and threads
like this:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,66684.15.html
Note again that it’s someone who decided to put their own SSD in the box,
loaded their own version of pfSense, then blew their foot off wh
Jim,
Netgate has a solid reputation for quality stuff and I happen to be a happy
customer. On occasion when I've called with technical questions, your
support has been very good. Enough for me to recommend your company and
products... and support.
Therefore, I find your "starting" tone a bit defe
Netgate sold you a FW-7535 with a CF card and either 1MB or 2MB of ram,
originally.
You changed the ram and installed an SSD, reloaded pfSense, and now you want to
complain that Netgate couldn’t… what, exactly?
There are thousands of FW-75xx systems in the world, happily running pfSense.
T
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 2:45 PM, master8...@aol.com wrote:
> I finally was able to receive an advanced replacement from Netgate a few
> weeks ago. I swapped it out leaving my old install intact and the problem
> disappeared on the new device. After all the installs with the various
> Netgate FW mo
I finally was able to receive an advanced replacement from Netgate a few
weeks ago. I swapped it out leaving my old install intact and the
problem disappeared on the new device. After all the installs with the
various Netgate FW models over the years (not the m1n1wall, those have
been awesome b
> I switched out the memory and the SSD,
But did you test the ram? Make sure the ram doesn't require a special
voltage - this is usually written on the sticker on the ram. And run
memtest86 on it overnight. And suspect the ssd - try a small hdd. I like to
use laptop drives as boot drives for my se
I switched out the memory and the SSD, reinstalled pfsense, and after a
few weeks of operation, VPN traffic started corrupting again.
A soft reset doesn't fix it.
A hard reset (by pulling the power cord for a few seconds) does.
I tried contacting Netgate and didn't receive a response.
Does any
