OpnSense fails

[gary201]

I've been using OpnSense for a few years now and it's worked well.  However, it's become quite unreliable as of lately.  The current symptom is that every 1-5 days it starts to fail rather suddenly.  The exact symptom is network throughput from the LAN starts to fail (~50% packet loss when pinging google.com or 8.8.8..  At the same time that happens the web login interface from the LAN also fails (just stops responding completely).  From the console, when I login ping rates out the WAN seem consistent (~50% packet loss).  Restarting the services (11 in the menu) doesn't resolve the problem.  The only resolution is to reboot (again, you'd have to do this from the console since the web login interface has stopped responding entirely).  This is all ipv4.

[greY]

had a similar issue here. Problem was a hardware defect on the used ethernet nic.