Re: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Mansfield
Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > I ran the script in a linux environment, and received "No appropriate > hardware found for this fixup". hmm. I presume you've tried turning off APM and ACPI, disabling serial ports, parallel port, and indeed disabling any hardware not absolutely essential in order to avo

RE: AW: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-06 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
ystems Administrator Atlas Networks, LLC Atlas Networks is an Atlas Accelerator Company -Original Message- From: Nathan Eisenberg [mailto:nat...@atlasnetworks.us] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:32 PM To: 'support@pfsense.com' Subject: RE: AW: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog tim

Re: AW: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-05 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > Any thoughts on a next step in troubleshooting? > As I suggested earlier in this thread: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Policy_on_FreeBSD_issues "Most frequently these issues are driver bugs. We do not have any developers who work on d

RE: AW: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-05 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
buech...@gmail.com [mailto:cbuech...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Chris Buechler Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:14 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: AW: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > > Admittedly, I did not expect

Re: AW: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-05 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > > Admittedly, I did not expect to run into hardware/driver issues when I was > buying these NICs. :( In fact, that's exactly the reason I > went with Intel HW in the first place. > Usually that's an accurate assessment. This card is new

RE: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-05 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Networks is an Atlas Accelerator Company -Original Message- From: Paul Mansfield [mailto:it-admin-pfse...@taptu.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:26 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting Paul M wrote: > linux - there used to be

AW: AW: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-05 Thread Fuchs, Martin
--Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Paul Mansfield [mailto:it-admin-pfse...@taptu.com] Gesendet: Montag, 5. Januar 2009 12:01 An: support@pfsense.com Betreff: Re: AW: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting Fuchs, Martin wrote: > And perhaps try to set the port speed in pfsense AND

RE: AW: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-05 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
ubject: Re: AW: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting Fuchs, Martin wrote: > And perhaps try to set the port speed in pfsense AND the switch, e.g. > 1000MBit FD... > Sometimes this helps, too Once you start setting port speeds to fix rates and duplex you're going

Re: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-05 Thread Paul Mansfield
Paul M wrote: > linux - there used to be a problem with the e1000 driver when power > saving is enabled in the e1000's eeprom. the fix worked, and I applied > it by booting a linux rescue disk and ran the eeprom fix program that I > got from the e1000 sourceforce website; their wiki seems to have >

Re: AW: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-05 Thread Paul Mansfield
Fuchs, Martin wrote: > And perhaps try to set the port speed in pfsense AND the switch, e.g. > 1000MBit FD... > Sometimes this helps, too Once you start setting port speeds to fix rates and duplex you're going down a long and slippery slope, it's best to avoid it unless there's a proven good rea

Re: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-04 Thread Paul M
Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > The error I am seeing is "em0: Watchdog Timeout -- Resetting", which > seems to have several root causes. I have tried disabling ACPI, both in we had this, it was very odd, it only started happening when we upgraded the bios on a tyan motherboard to fix other problems,

Re: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-04 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:39 AM, k_o_l wrote: > Try configuring the "portfast" feature on the cisco switch for all ports > connecting to the FW. This should move the ports from disabled to forwarding > without going through all the spanning tree stages which could take up to 50 > sec. > It will,

AW: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-04 Thread Fuchs, Martin
@pfsense.com Betreff: Re: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting Can't help with your pfsense problem, but it might help to configure this on your switch. "spanning-tree portfast" Configured on your cisco switch will change the port to a forwarding state immediately. Nathan

Re: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-04 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > > The error I am seeing is "em0: Watchdog Timeout -- Resetting", which seems > to have several root causes. I have tried disabling ACPI, both in the BIOS, > and in the bootloader. I have disabled all nonessential devices in the BIOS > (ex

Re: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-03 Thread apiase...@midatlanticbb.com
Can't help with your pfsense problem, but it might help to configure this on your switch. "spanning-tree portfast" Configured on your cisco switch will change the port to a forwarding state immediately. Nathan Eisenberg wrote: Hello, I am deploying a new set of firewall boxes using PFSe

[pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-03 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Hello,   I am deploying a new set of firewall boxes using PFSense 1.2.1.  These boxes have 4GB of RAM, Intel Quad Core CPUs, and a PCI-E Intel 4 Port 10/100/1000 NIC (em0-3) in addition to the 2 onboard 10/100/1000 NICs (em4-5).   The Intel NIC seems to go to pieces whenever load is pas