On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Dimitri Rodis <dimit...@integritasystems.com> wrote: > Attention Firebox X500/700/1000 Users using pfSense: >
Glad to hear that looks like it fixes it. There's at least one thread on the forum reporting this issue as well, might want to post to those threads too to give those folks a heads up. > > > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
