Hey guys,


well I doubt that my hardware has issues as it did work for about 1 year 
(until last week) with fli4l (www.fli4l.de) a linux router project. And 
it never froze once before.
I did put 2 different 3 com nics (3c905b) into the system and it did 
lock up once again ...

I did hear from a few ppl that they have a cron doing a restart every 2 
days (I hint on how to do this best would be great :-P ), but this can't 
be the intention of the usage.
Maybe it's some kind of incompatiblity issue ...


greetings

Christian




Frederick Page wrote:

>Hallo Chris,
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>Chris Buechler schrieb am 04. March 2005:
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>>http://bsdinstaller.org/trolls.html
>>but I'll bite anyway.
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>I am very sorry for giving this impression, that certainly was not
>intended. I also admit that the problem might be on my side, I simply
>have no way of knowing whether my Soekris net4801 might be faulty in
>some way. I also opened my mouth here about supposed bugs, when it
>turned out that the "bug" was in front of the monitor :-(
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>>>Although declared stable, the recent bugs with Traffic Shaper, NAT,
>>>PPTP, etc. show impressively in which direction FBSD is going. 
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>>Moving to 5.3 is almost like starting m0n0wall from scratch really,
>>given the kernel issues that had to be worked around originally.
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>That point in time would strike me as an ideal opportunity to let go
>of ipfilter, etc. and if everything has to be redone, why not go all
>the way and move to OpenBSD? (I realize that it's too late now, all
>work has already gone into the 5.x branch of FBSD).
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>>I don't know what the freezing issues might be, as I've never seen
>>them, but they started before m0n0wall was moved to 5.3 so that
>>eliminates your stability claim with 5.3.
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>The fact that you never experienced them, gives me hope, that I might
>have had a flaky Soekris. Yes, I noticed the freezes before, however I
>also had a freeze of the 5.x FBSD m0n0wall after only 3 days (it was 7
>to 11 days before). That however maybe related to potential problems
>on my side. Those are very hard to trackdown, that's why I just in
>case bought a WRAP (you can see how the freezes annoy me) and switched
>to that one since today.
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>I really have hopes, that the freezes just stop. I will then give the
>Soekris to someone with only a little surfing, etc. who probably will
>be grateful and not notice anything unusual.
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>>Though it is very annoying that it's happening, and since it happens
>>on hardware that's stable with 1.11, it seems not to be hardware
>>related.
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>The problem is that one cannot know for sure. So I exchanged the
>hardware (I also hated the fact that my vpn1411 wasn't running well
>on Soekris, it's now in the WRAP).
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>Thank you for responding to this and shedding some light on the
>ipfilter/ipfw issues.
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>Kind regards   Frederick
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