On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Jim Riggs <freebsd-li...@christianserving.org> wrote: > I have been having an issue with 2.0 for a few months (beta snapshots and > RC1) that is driving me mad. I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. > > The server is a Dell PowerEdge R610 with bce0-bce3. It is a repurposed > server, so it is built and configured as a server and for performance. In > the simplest setup, I only have a LAN (bce0) and WAN (bce1). This is a test > server for evaluating 2.0, so it doesn't really have much traffic. There are > only a couple of us using it as a gateway. > > A few minutes after booting, the Web UI will become unusably slow or > completely unresponsive. Sometimes we will be greeted with a 503 response. > Other times the browser just spins forever. SSH access is similarly flaky. > We have found that if we force some traffic through the gateway (e.g. http > request from LAN to WAN) right after requesting a page from the Web UI or > attempting an SSH session, it will respond to that request. > > I have dug through posts related to this in the forums and archives, but > haven't found too much that's relevant. I did find one post [1], though, > that was somewhat similar. Basically, the OP had to run tcpdump on the > pfSense box to get it to work. I tried that, and it works! So, now every > time I restart the pfSense box I have to log in on console or SSH (if I can > get in) and run a `nohup tcpdump -i bce0 >& /dev/null' to make it behave. > Note that unlike the referenced post, we do not have any trouble LAN->WAN > through the gateway. It just seems to be problematic accessing the gateway > itself from the LAN. >
Odd, then it's only working when the NIC is in promiscuous mode. What's the exact chipset (run dmesg|grep bce0)? Some odd driver quirk, apparently specific to only certain particular chipsets as I know there are a number of systems running bce that don't have such issues. Running 'ifconfig bce0 promisc' would accomplish the same without having to run tcpdump. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
