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:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:23 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] 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! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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