axe nics? Thats surely the problem. Throw out the nics and replace with genuine Intel or 3com nics. FreeBSD is quite picky about hardware and in this case I cannot say that I have ever heard of anyone using those types of nics.
Scott On 1/24/07, Esteban Zarikian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I've been surfing along the available documentation online for PFSense and I haven't been able to obtain something that would help me with a problem I'm having with my PFSense installation. A couple of days ago I installed PFSense on a machine that was previously running W2003 server. We decided to use it as a firewall now and we installed 4 nics on it, one is using the axe driver, two are using the vr driver and the last is using the dc driver. The machine is a Pentium IV, has 512MB RAM and a 40GB ide disk. The problem I'm running into is that about twice a day, I find the firewall's console frozen, displaying the options but not allowing any input or giving any feedback. Network connections also freeze up. the first time I got the problem, I found a message saying axe0: read PHY failed. This all sounds like a hardware problem to me, but I don't know how to isolate the problem, especially since most of the time I'm away from the firewall, and all failures have happened while I'm away. Is there a way to get some debugging info, crash output or something that can give me a hint as to where the problem lies? Currently I'm installing a SYSLOG server to capture log output and see if it will help. I have avoided installing the developer kernel since I'm away from the machine and I don't know if it will require some physical intervention which I can't give it right now. If you know any documents that can help me on my way, I would really appreciate it! Thanks in advance Esteban Zarikian Triops Solutions
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