From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 25 05:59:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946DB16A400 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:59:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from holgerdanske.com (holgerdanske.com [65.19.145.106]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82F0413C448 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:59:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from a64x23800p ([64.142.42.100]) by holgerdanske.com for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:49:33 -0700 From: "David Christensen" To: References: Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:49:32 -0700 Message-ID: <000201c7b6ec$9b7e20e0$0a00a8c0@a64x23800p> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Ace2rK5nlMeDUmQTQk6CpW9+zk6pnwALpjkQ In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 Cc: 'SigmaX asdf' Subject: RE: Regular Freezes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:59:37 -0000 SigmaX wrote: > My FreeBSD 6.1 gateway box keeps freezing totally. It seems to > happen when there's a large burst of network traffic on my internal > interface (i.e. download, flash movie, I-radio). > I've already done a memtest, and it came out clean. Any ideas as to > what logs might help me trouble shoot? I did the home-brew gateway initially, but then I discovered purpose-built (Linux) distributions and never looked back. My current gateway/router is an old Dell with a Pentium 166 MHz, 32 MB SDRAM, and two 10/100 interfaces running IPCop: http://www.ipcop.org/ Installation is short and sweet (~15 minutes for a simple configuration once you know what you're doing). IPCop has an excellent WWW/CGI management interface, and you can also get in via ssh if needed. I regularly send ~6 MB/sec of ssh traffic through it without any problems. It runs for months on end without a hitch. The last time I needed to power cycle it (103 days ago) was to replace the crashed hard drive. I'm currently considering building a replacement based on a K6-2/350 with two 10/100 interfaces (WAN and wireless) and two Gigabit interfaces (LAN and DMZ). There might similar distributions out there based on *BSD; try STFW, let us know what you find, and how well they work. HTH, David