Well, I threw the latest 1.2.3-RC1 on a CF card and booted up my X500.
I've been passing all sorts of traffic through it (WAN and OPT1 bridge)
with no pauses in traffic or watchdog timeouts. My traffic has been
anything from netperf tests TCP and UDP, raw FTP traffic, random web
browsing, and some very heavy bittorrent traffic (Latest Ubuntu released
today :-) ). In fact, I've run some of those tests concurrently.
Thus far, after saturating the 100mbit link through the bridge for
nearly 4 hours, I've yet to see a problem. I can post any additional
information you need, just let me know. This X500 is 100% stock with the
exception of the CF card. The 64MB CF was a bit small so it was replaced
with a Sandisk 256MB I had lying around.
Out of curiosity, what is the largest DIMM these units will accept? They
come with 256MB which seems a bit light. I'd like to throw a 1GB stick
in if possible.
--Tim
Dimitri Rodis wrote:
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
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