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
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