On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 17:48, Chris Buechler <cbuech...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Dimitri Rodis > <dimit...@integritasystems.com> wrote: >> >> I would really like to see this work reliably at some point. From what I can >> tell, this problem is not limited to just Fireboxes, it is on pretty much >> all NICs that have >> RTL8139C+ chips on them. >> > > There is something specific about the Fireboxes (and some other > scenarios), but the re(4) driver isn't always that problematic. I have > at least two boxes that function normally even under heavy load with > such cards. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com > For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > >
Yes, there is magic weak-sauce in the Firebox's. It's like a typhoon. OTOH, I had a white-box/former-desktop today, which has been fine and running w/o complaint. This afternoon, we started seeing weird latency spikes - to the ISP router (on premises). Our ISP is Comcast, so, of course we blamed a cable-modem or other. We rebooted the modem and everything was ok for about 10 minutes. After about ten minutes, the Quality Graphs showed Avg latency climbing to 300ms, the overall throughput on our speed tests dropped under 20MBPS, and RTT spikes of up to 2 seconds when uploading or downloading. I started a ping in the CLI when this got bad, and I began having "ping: sendto: No buffer space available". I saw a few articles, etc. Finally, I noticed that our WAN NIC was an Realtek. Somehwat ironically we had just this-week begun to build a second firewall for CARP, so we switched in the new hardware. The new/used former-desktop has Intel E1000s and the problems went away. I don't know if others have problems like this, but I only have [had?] four firewalls in production with realtek. I just replaced three of them in the last week. In every case, all my problems went away. One left, and I think that is doomed for failure. We would be willing to test Firebox X700 patches, we have 5 functioning Fireboxes. Sincerely, Joshua --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
