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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