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Title: OPNsense dies every 24th hour or so
Post by: TomasL on December 04, 2025, 07:48:46 PM
Every 24 hour OPNsense dies, and throughput goes down to zero.
This happens when I do large uploads, i.e full bandwidth 600 Mb/s for 24 hours continuously.
After re-boot bandwidth is restored for an additional 24 hours.
Sometimesm it goes down after half an hour
HW is Gigabyte N3150 based MB, with realtek super-io (2x 1Gb/s Lan-ports).
Intel Celeron N3150, 4 cores @ 1,6 GHz
4g MEMORY.
No overheating, memory usage around 16%, CPU maxes out at 40% on the peaks.
Any sugestions on where to look.
Title: Re: OPNsense dies every 24th hour or so
Post by: Seimus on December 04, 2025, 08:12:11 PM
So the device lives, but no traffic is going thru?

That realtek NIC looks suspicious, did you install the additional realtek plugin?

Regards,
S.
Title: Re: OPNsense dies every 24th hour or so
Post by: TomasL on December 04, 2025, 08:23:38 PM
Yes I did.
Before OPNsense i was running CENTOS7 with an IP-tables firewall (https://github.com/arno-iptables-firewall/aif/), without any problems.
Title: Re: OPNsense dies every 24th hour or so
Post by: Patrick M. Hausen on December 04, 2025, 09:23:39 PM
Did you install the vendor driver plugin for Realtek NICs?
Title: Re: OPNsense dies every 24th hour or so
Post by: TomasL on December 04, 2025, 09:33:35 PM
Yes I did.
Title: Re: OPNsense dies every 24th hour or so
Post by: franco on December 04, 2025, 09:44:41 PM
Can you check dmesg?

I can't say that these NICs are built for that amount of persistent stress and this will probably be very true for FreeBSD regardless of in-tree or vendor driver. Linux may be more reliable, but most people just try to find better NICs. There's a lot of good cheap Intel stuff out there.


Cheers,
Franco
Title: Re: OPNsense dies every 24th hour or so
Post by: TomasL on December 04, 2025, 10:10:42 PM
Well, other NICS is out, there is not enough space and only one slot on the MB.
Since it worked W/O any problem with CENTOS, well, it has to be an OPNsense issue and not an HW-isue.
Title: Re: OPNsense dies every 24th hour or so
Post by: franco on December 04, 2025, 10:17:53 PM
Yes, I already told you I have my doubts about reliability in FreeBSD with both the in-tree and the vendor driver.


Cheers,
Franco
Title: Re: OPNsense dies every 24th hour or so
Post by: Patrick M. Hausen on December 04, 2025, 10:21:50 PM
Quote from: TomasL on Today at 10:10:42 PMWell, other NICS is out, there is not enough space and only one slot on the MB.
Since it worked W/O any problem with CENTOS, well, it has to be an OPNsense issue and not an HW-isue.

Not debating that fact. But then probably a Linux based firewall would be preferable? Why not OpenWRT? Or IPFire?
Title: Re: OPNsense dies every 24th hour or so
Post by: TomasL on December 04, 2025, 10:26:05 PM
Will probably go for ROXY9 and AIF, at the end.