sonicwal 2600
I need help trying to figure out what went wrong with my sonicwall last night.
We have moved to a new building and everything needs to be working 100% tomorrow, and I thought I had the comms room sorted and went home about 5pm. Today I come in at 9am and the internet is down. I cant get on the net, I cant ping the firewall its responding to nothing. I have to pull the power and put it back in again and the router came back up as if nothing was ever wrong.
I am wondering what could have caused this as there are no logs now on the router since before the reboot.....
We have moved to a new building and everything needs to be working 100% tomorrow, and I thought I had the comms room sorted and went home about 5pm. Today I come in at 9am and the internet is down. I cant get on the net, I cant ping the firewall its responding to nothing. I have to pull the power and put it back in again and the router came back up as if nothing was ever wrong.
I am wondering what could have caused this as there are no logs now on the router since before the reboot.....
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starting to wonder if i have a faulty device. After i powered it on today it worked great again, then about 6 hours later i thought the network was going slow so i started running some diagnostics and even plugged into the gb switch that goes straight to the firewall i was getting dropped packets and some slow pings in between normal pings... a reboot and its straight back to normal. No changes had been made during this time.
If so you may have a broken piece of gear. Interface errors on fw appearing? Memory or CPU high?
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Its happened a few times now, sorry i mean the Dell Sonicwall.
It starts by being fine after a reboot, then eventually it starts dropping the odd ping, then it just completely goes.
It starts by being fine after a reboot, then eventually it starts dropping the odd ping, then it just completely goes.
Try changing the MTU on the SonicWALLs, here's how: http:/A_12615-Unstable-Slow-Performing-Networks-or-VPNs-just-go-grocery-shopping.html
Retest and then let me know how that goes.
Retest and then let me know how that goes.
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We are in the new building with everyone working at the moment, so i will have to try it tonight and get back to you. I have also opened a support ticket with Dell, will update if they give me any information.
Great, thanks for the update!
Any update on this?
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seems to have just stopped, its very bizarre. The night I was going to try what you suggested I got stuck doing something else and then when I came back to reboot the firewall 6 hours later it was still online. Had no problems now but for 5 days it just stopped working every 4 hours.
I have an open call with Dell to try and figure out exactly what caused it, but seeing as the logs were lost when I powered it down I don't think we will ever know.
I have an open call with Dell to try and figure out exactly what caused it, but seeing as the logs were lost when I powered it down I don't think we will ever know.
So have you had a chance to adjusted the MTU as mentioned in the article?
Do you have some monitoring enabled in your LAN, any info when the device might have died?
I suggest watching it carefully and maybe do some stress tests (heavy IPSEC traffic, some test torrent of linux image creating many simultaneous connections). Better be safe than sorry.
Maybe try doing a debug logging as well, firewall is much more informative then.
And have laptop with console on standby. :)
Good luck