I haven't deployed a monowall yet, but I need a very reliable firewall for
my network so the only time it should be rebooted is if I need to move the
power cable! I haven't followed this thread, but how prevalant is the freeze
and lockup issue?

Eric

On 6/12/06, James W. McKeand <james at mckeand dot biz> wrote:
>
> Soren Vanggaard Jensen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This issues has been brought up before. Monowall/freebsd seems to
> > have a bug that may cause a sporadic total OS freeze/lockup. I'm
> > bringing this up again because i have an installation running
> > monowall version 1.22, which freezes solid every once in a while.
> >
> > Initially i used a SOEKRIS net 4501 hardware platform, but the system
> > froze approx. every 2-3 hours. I replaced the haw with a SOEKRIS net
> > 4801 (replaced the PSU too) and have just seen a lockup after 7 days
> > of uptime. There's nothing in the setup out of the ordinary.
> >
> > What do you suggest i should do to eliminate the problem? Could i
> > upload a script causing the monowall to reboot every night at 4AM?
> > Any examples of such a script?
> >
> > BR.
> > Søren Vanggaard Jensen
>
> Your issues may be local. I have over 70 days uptime on a net4501 with
> v1.22. What features are you using? Captive Portal, PPTP, IPSec?
>
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