General Questions

Hi!

After 2-3 hours of uptime, m0n0wall starts to crash my modem and it does so until I reboot m0n0wall. After each reboot it stays stable for 2-3 hours.

What could cause this? Is this related to the Fatal Trap 12 problem?

I tested m0n0wall not having connected it to the modem at all, then plugging in the modem after 3-4 hours. The same thing occured, it started to crash my modem instantly. Rebooting m0n0wall fixes it for 2-3 hours though.

m0n0wall version is 1.233, not upgraded, clean install on CF-card.

have you installed the latest possible firmware on your modem?

something that could be happening is that sometimes when monowall sends or gets things from a source, it may be asking for something that isn't there, when that happens, usually the request is disregarded or met with an error, but in your case, monowall may be asking or telling your cable modem something that, due to old firmware, could just look like jibberish and your cable modem doesn't know what to do with that.


has this situation always been the case?  is this a recent problem?  are you behind any other networks?  most importantly, is your cable modem set up as a bridge?

also, sometimes modems die, non-industrial network devices tend to burn out much the same way lightbulbs do.  what could be happening is once your modem is nice and warmed up after a few hours of dealing with monowall, an old chip in there can't handle the thermal change, and flips out.