Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
Ok new problem: re:1 watchdog timeout. I think we have properly
disabled ACPI. Anyone have any other advice?
Change hardware. Those cheap NICs in the Watchguards have all kinds of problems.
Chris,
Thanks, I appreciate your input. I think we'll take your advice. =(
Weak-sauce hardware!
Just to confirm, I've seen the same watchdog timeout problem on two
salvaged Firebox X500's running pfsense 1.x.x a few years ago.
Back then I tried about anything I could think of, never found a
solution. Finally replaced the hardware to get it fixed.
There are a few forum threads about this as well.
Although it is definately related to the type of NIC's in the watchguard
boards, I'm still not completely convinced this is 100% a hardware
problem since the Watchguard Linux OS seems to work just fine on it.
Sounds more like a FreeBSD driver problem to me, and therefore not
directly related to pfsense.
Has anyone tested pfsense 2.0 on these fireboxes ?
Since it is based on a newer version of FreeBSD, maybe an updated NIC
driver solves these issues ?
Regards,
H.
