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15.7 Legacy Series / Clients randomly not working -- out of disk

« on: November 27, 2015, 06:06:02 am »

I have begun to have a problem with my WiFi clients not being able to get assigned their configuration with DHCP. It started a couple days ago with my iPhone randomly not being able to access the net because it does not have an assigned IP address. I rebooted last night and everything came back. This evening the problem is back. First thing I noticed was that the FS is full.

/ (ufs): 109% used 14G/14G

WTF? What would be eating that much disk? This is a pretty basic installation. So off to the logs. The system log is full of:

kernel: pid 73581 (dhcpd), uid 136 inumber 1364898 on /mnt: filesystem full

and

kernel: pid 59843 (suricata), uid 0 inumber 1364877 on /mnt: filesystem full

So it stands to reason that dhcpd has a problem not being able to write out the leases. That would answer why the clients aren't getting assigned addresses. But I'm still at a loss as to what would consume all the disk and cause the problem in the first place. how to clear it out again.

Oh, and I stopped intrusion detection just in case. It does seem to be trying to write a lot of stuff to disk.

Help?

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15.7 Legacy Series / [SOLVED] Bootstrapping a PCEngines APU1D4

« on: November 06, 2015, 12:48:31 am »

I apologize for asking what has undoubtedly been answered before but after half a day of searching the forum and other resources, I haven't yet found an answer. That having been said ...

I am trying to bootstrap a new, bare PCEngines APU1D4 to run OPNsense. I have equipped the APU with a 16GB SD card and I have copied the installer onto an 8GB USB flash drive and plugged that into the upper USB port. The startup messages show that the BIOS/bootstrap is seeing both drives. In fact, here is the console output:

PC Engines APU BIOS build date: Sep  8 2014
Total memory 4096 MB
AMD G-T40E Processor
CPU MHz=1000
USB MSC blksize=512 sectors=31116288
USB MSC blksize=512 sectors=15240576
Press F10 key now for boot menu:
drive 0x000f2a80: PCHS=0/0/0 translation=lba LCHS=1024/255/63 s=31116288
drive 0x000f2ab0: PCHS=0/0/0 translation=lba LCHS=948/255/63 s=15240576
Booting from Hard Disk...

At this point nothing further happens.

Now, part of my problem is with the BIOS/bootstrap. I suspect that pressing the F10 key (what that might correspond to on a serial ASCII terminal keyboard I haven't a clue) might let me select the boot drive. (I have a query in to PCEngines but haven't heard back yet.) It certainly doesn't appear to be finding the install image on the USB flash drive. (OPNsense-15.7.11-OpenSSL-serial-amd64.img)

But it would be helpful if there existed a clearly described path from zero to running OPNsense on a an SBC appliance such as the PCE APU. I know it is possible but, so far, I have been unsuccessful.

Help?

Thanks!

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15.1 Legacy Series / Transitioning from m0n0wall to OPNsense

« on: February 16, 2015, 05:51:57 pm »

Manuel Kasper, the developer of m0n0wall, has announced that the m0n0wall project has ended and has recommended that everyone using m0n0wall transition to OPNsense. Many people using m0n0wall are using hardware substantially inferior to what is recommended for OPNsense, i.e. single-core 32-bit processors, less RAM, CF or other slower flash media for booting than SSD, etc. Also, many are using SBCs from Alix or PC Engines as network appliances. So this brings up some questions:

• Can this class of hardware even run the i386 version of OPNsense? Performance may not be up-to-par but will it even work, making transition to OPNsense possible without a fork-lift upgrade of existing hardware. This would allow a two-phase upgrade, i.e. make it run now then make it run better later.
• If so, can the install i386 images be used as "boot and run" images or are they just installers?
• if they are only installer images, is there a run image available?

Thank you for your forbearance. There are a lot of us out there running m0n0wall and it looks like we will be coming over here and joining you. I am looking forward to a long and fruitful relationship ... once I manage to make the transition.

Thank you in advance.

Brian Lloyd
brian@lloyd.aero