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Vivek Khera wrote:
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> On Apr 3, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Eric W. Bates wrote:
> 
>> hifn0: rndtest: zeros interval 4 failed (243, 251-373)
>> hifn0: rndtest: zeros interval 3 failed (717, 542-708)
>>
>> This started on Pfsense 0.92 and persists after upgrading to BETA-2. I
>> had no luck with Google.  Can anyone enlighten me?
>>
> 
> I see this all the time with a VPN1401 PCI card on my primary office 
> firewall running pfsense.  I don't see it at all on a WRAP box with a 
> VPN1411 mini-PCI at a remote location running m0n0wall, but I'm not 
> sure if that would show up in the logs.
> 
> My guess is that the driver in 6.0 is just reporting some issues with 
> the "randomness" of the random number  generator in the hifn chip... 
> but it seems  very odd that would be the problem considering freebsd 
> doesn't take advantage of the RNG on that chip.
> 
> 
> Do you see random lockups of your pfsense box?  Today I pulled the 
> soekris card from my main office pfsense box (a Dell PE400SC) since  we
> would get random lockups (total hardware freeze) anywhere from 3  days
> to 14 days apart ever since I installed the card.

Scary.

No, this system is still on the bench; so I haven't really beat the crap
out of it yet.

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