opnsense
[BUG] NIC Watchdog timer on RTL8111/8168/8411, subvendor=0x1458
Describe the bug
Since the Update to OPNSense 22.0 I have troubles with the onBoard-NIC. In this version there had been buffer issues on the NIC using zenarmor, so I had to disable it. Since the update to 22.1 it becomes worse by getting regularly watchdog messages (without the use of zenarmor) about the NIC, causing the interface to get down and up in a loop, until it stops working.
In total there are four cards, 3x PCI, 1xon-Board - all are identified as RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller's. The difference between the onBoard-Card and the other three PICe-Card is the subtype: PICe Cards: vendor=0x10ec device=0x8168 subvendor=0x10ec subdevice=0x8168 on-Board Card: vendor=0x10ec device=0x8168 subvendor=0x1458 subdevice=0xe000
To Reproduce* Simple use the described NIC above in OPNSense 22.1 as active interface for WAN or LAN.
Expected behavior
No watchdog issue
Describe alternatives you considered
It seems like it's a known issue in BSD: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166724#c13
A solution might be the following: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166724#c96
Environment
Software version used and hardware type if relevant, e.g.: OPNsense 22.1.1_1-amd64 FreeBSD 13.0-STABLE OpenSSL 1.1.1m 14 Dec 2021
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I guess my problem https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/5602 could be the same. So take information from my my issue if this one has the incomplete tag. But NightDragon1 already seem to have suggested a solution. I'm not into FreeBSD and therefore sadly can't help more than reporting this issue too.
@aronmal Could you check what types of card you got, by running devinfo -rv | grep 0x10ec on your system?
root@SecondaryFw:~ # devinfo -rv | greo 0x10ec
hdacc0 pnpinfo vendor=0x10ec device=0x0283 revision=0x00 stepping=0x03 at cad=0
re0 pnpinfo vendor=0x10ec device=0x8168 subvendor=0x1462 subdevice=0xb171 class=020000 at slot=0 function=0 dbsf=pcie0:6:0:0 handle=\_SB_.PCI0.RP06.PXSX
root@SecondaryFw:~ #
Have you installed os-realtek-re? It’s in the release notes after all.
Solved it! speed test with full 1Gb/s running without a problem. Thanks! But great it's a known and "fixed" issue. Great work OPNsense Team!!!
I used to have this problem too, but it would happen every few weeks. I have just come back from a 2 week vacation and updated the firewall, and now it is happening every few minutes. I searched for this and found this posting, so tried installing os-realtek-re but it has not fixed the problem.
Hardware: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DFL2BM2/
I am having a similar issue with the RTL8111 using a PC Engines apu1d4 board. Worked great with pfSense, but OPNsense has been nothing but problems. In my case, the NIC does not go down, but appears to be causing frequent system crashes. I did install os-realtek-re which seemed to help, but there are still crashes. This morning the system crashed, then would not boot. Comes up at the db prompt so guessing this is a fresh install. Super frustrating...
