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General Discussion / Re: Seven new dark themes

« on: January 01, 2024, 08:05:26 pm »

Mihak, do you have plans to update the theme for the FreeBSD 13 (AMD64) version of OPNsense (v23.7.10_1)?

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: OPNsense frequent crashes

« on: May 31, 2021, 07:27:24 pm »

Hi Franco, yes, I finally returned that darn unit yesterday.  Life is too short to deal with cheap, unreliable hardware. I am currently looking at a few Sophos firewall appliances on eBay to replace that mini PC.  Is there some others that I should be looking for?  It will be used in my own Home/Office production environment. I am open and appreciate suggestions.

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: OPNsense frequent crashes

« on: May 29, 2021, 08:43:44 pm »

Agreed. Since the next version is still so far out, without any guarantees of resolving the problem, it reinforces the idea of replacing the hardware.

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: OPNsense frequent crashes

« on: May 29, 2021, 07:30:09 pm »

Thanks Franco. I ran the memory test multiple times,  all PASSed... Still pending other HW tests are pending.
One thing I did not like is that I had to disable a disk test during initial install because the cheap Chinese SSD did not support it.
I am seriously considering to return this machine to Amazon and replacing it with a Protectli Vault or Qotom Vault. Any thoughts are appreciated.

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: OPNsense frequent crashes

« on: May 28, 2021, 07:32:38 pm »

Yes, I believe it is UEFI only, and I have been using UEFI since the beginning.  Can't get Knoppix to boot. It hangs during boot.  I was able to get MemTest86 to start, I left the PC overnight.  This morning, all tests passed. I have started a second round of tests which may take longer, as it uses one of the 4 CPUs on a round-robin basis.  Last night's test was with the 4 CPUs simultaneously and it took about 10hs to complete.

Coincidentally, MemTest86 did not crash during the testing.   

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: OPNsense frequent crashes

« on: May 28, 2021, 05:42:30 am »

Hello opnfwb,
Thanks for your tips.  I went into BIOS and there is nothing to be turned off.  Cheap little mini PC. 
I have been having unusual difficulties to get this mini PC to boot under Knoppix.  Tried with StressLinux as well with no success.       
I am getting pretty annoyed by this darn little thing.  Not giving up as of yet. 

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21.1 Legacy Series / Re: OPNsense frequent crashes

« on: May 27, 2021, 06:25:12 pm »

Thank you opnfwb.  Yes, agreed. I should have done that to begin with. I normally use the bootable Knoppix for those cases, which I will do in my case. Sorry for popping up as a shoemaker that fails to wear shoes.   

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21.1 Legacy Series / OPNsense frequent crashes

« on: May 26, 2021, 10:33:00 pm »

Hello,

I installed OPNsense in a mini PC (AWOW Model AK34 - Intel Celeron N3450, 6Gb DDR4, 128GB SSD) recently.

I've noticed that the firewall continuously crashes, at least once or twice daily, sometimes even more.

I have no clue as to what may be happening, reason for me to reach out to more hardcore geeks.  I wonder if it is a hardware incompatibility.

Attached is the log of the latest crash.