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Bug #1425

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pfSense stops receiving traffic on 'bge' driven interface

Added by Chris Smith over 13 years ago. Updated over 12 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Operating System
Target version:
-
Start date:
04/07/2011
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Plus Target Version:
Release Notes:
Affected Version:
2.0
Affected Architecture:

Description

Hi guys,

This bug has happened to our installation twice, now. Seemingly randomly, the bge0 interface (I have bge0 and 1) will lose the ability to receive traffic via it's interface, proven by tcpdump.

bge0 is defined as this in the dmesg:

bge0: <HP NC107i PCIe Gigabit Server Adapter, ASIC rev. 0x5784100> mem 0xdf600000-0xdf60ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci32

This bug was previously reported to the FreeBSD team who believe it is fixed in stable/8 (after 8.1-RELEASE, which is what pfSense 2.0 is using) and the bug submitter confirms. The fix, whatever it is, is also present in 7.3-RELEASE.

The FreeBSD bug is here:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152295

This is obviously a show-stopper (for us at least, it's an increasingly popular chipset found in servers) as there is no work around until it fails.

Will pfSense 2.0 (release) be based on 8.2? Or 8.1-release and therefore not have the bugfix for this chipset driver installed? Is a backport of the specific fix possible?

We're currently running pfSense2-BETA4 and have no plans to upgrade before the official release. However, if the fix is included in a release candidate we will be happy to upgrade (after some testing) :)

Any help appreciated,
Cheers,
Chris.

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