Just moved from IPCop to IPFire.
Installation went well, although having the image on an USB-stick it still wanted to download the iso to install. The installation images on your guide show it should find my HDD, but despite changing bios setting to every possible option and switching 3 HDDs, I still had to download iso. Then two steps later I got to choose if I want to install on my thumb drive or HDD.
My real issue now is that it randomly drops the Internet for 5-10 seconds.
This is a major pain especially for my kids who play a lot of games. if it drops in tournaments they may get banned due to this.
It never happened with IPCop which I have used for 10+ years.
Hardware is fine, no heat issues. Only config done is adding static routes on green.
Oh and that, why is it two steps for adding a static route? First add, then update.
IPCop just added it.
Hardware is a own built, DFI SB630 motherboard with Intel i7 2600 CPU, 16GB RAM, 500GB HDD. Extra Intel dual port gigabit NIC.
Well, I did use the flash image first. After realizing it didnât install on the SSD I wrote the iso with rufus to the USB key. After this it installed on the HDD. (switched as I didnât think it found the SSD)
But I will re-burn the iso to a new USB key and do a re-install later.
Way past midnight here and a bit tired.
Have only one disk in the system. Currently an Intel SSD 400GB.
Ok, second try.
Burnt the iso to USB using Rufus and for reference I also burned the same iso to a CD-ROM.
Booting from USB first.
Install IPFire
Language
then start installation
And here it wants me to download installation image.
Adding CD-ROM and resets PC
So Install IPFire again
Language
Start installation
License agreement
And here it found my SSD and asks if to delete all data
Choose filesystem
Done
So I guess the old fashion CD-ROM is still the best.
This issue I never have with any other Linux distro or IPCop.
So installed and first configure before going to GUI is done.
Using RED + GREEN.
My ISP has fibre, 250/250 so using DHCP.
Here is another strange thing, with IPCop I get the hostname from my ISP, but in IPFire I set my own hostname?
Adding fixed leases for all my things. Again, WHY have Add and directly after Update?? IPCop have only Add, OpnSense have add and I can keep adding everything. then click update.
And IPFire doesnât even blank the fields after Add or Update.
And about 15 minutes after that is done it disconnect and re-connect the WAN. I cant find anything in the logs of the cause.
For reference I installed OpnSense yesterday and had it run all Saturday. Absolutely no problem at all.
While typing all this it has re-connect the WAN 3 times.
I was looking forward to RUN IPFire as it is very similar to IPCop that I loved for the past 10 years or so. If it canât be solved I will go to OpnSense.
This looks like the e1000e NIC driver is messing around again; I believe @arne_f is aware of that issue. Anyway:
12:01:03 dhcpcd[14728] : red0: deleting route to 1.1.1.0/24
12:01:03 dhcpcd[14728] : red0: deleting default route via 1.1.1.1
This should not happen - I am pretty sure 1.1.1.1 is not providing gateway connectivity to your system. Are you sure you configured the correct default gateway?
Iâm having this same problem on a two port Intel NIC with the e1000e driver, on the green0 interface.
My hardware is a HP Thin Client with a Intel Pro NIC (two ethernet ports), wich is using the e1000e driver. It fails with the âDetected Hardware Unit Hangâ with a very similar log to the above.
I also see the same issue in all computers in the green zone that are pointing to google DNS servers. What is also notable is that the IP fire beeps the mini PC sound alarm as if has lost internet connections to the cable modem side to the ISP. I can see this issue recurrently almost every few minutes apart. When IPFire is taken out of the network path all works fine so no internet related issues. I have some suspicion also in two areas one is IPS but disabling it did not change anything and another area is the geolocation based blocking which could be related for video type streams based on services around the world. I use the geo based filtering to isolate inbound VoIP calls but it may have broader impacts. I will also disable that and try again.
e1000e 0000:00:19.0 red0: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: Rx /Tx
To cause the disconnect I just need intensive video streaming or just do the Google speed test few times⌠When IpFire is not in the path no issues observed.
It looks also that during speed test the upload speed test is causing the red interface restart rather than the download speed test.
Thanks for the lead. I did not try it as that was few version back and assumed that would be no issue in recent ones. I have now added the below to /etc/sysconfig/firewall.local
ifconfig | grep flags | cut -d: -f1 | grep -v ^lo$ | while read IFACE; do
ethtool -K $IFACE gso off gro off tso off
done
And so far looks good and promising as I can not cause the disconnections from myspeed test anymore. Thanks for the support and the great software!
