On 4/18/09 11:17 AM, 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> http://www.integritasystems.com
HOT! We are so looking into this. We have 5 watchguards which we can
use for this project, and I hate the idea of them collecting dust.
Count us IN!
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