General Questions

I am new with m0n0wall althought I have looked at it years back.
I've been running a Gentoo homebuild router/firewall/etc for about a year now on a Jetway J7F4 Dual Gigabit LAN 1.5GHz C7D Mini-ITX motherboard which has been stable ever since I build it.
The reason to try m0n0wall is that I don't want to spend as much time on it as I used to do, plus I got a good NAS to use for webserver and stuff.

I put m0n0wall on a 32MByte IDE flash module and set it up. Everything worked like a charm.
However, for some reason the WAN connection keeps being dropped.
First I thought it was my ISP, but putting the hard drive back in with the Gentoo installation it's alright again.

LAN side is fine and I can keep accessing the router to check logs and all that. Logs just say it lost the connection.
When I release the WAN port and let it check for a DHCP lease it gets one fine, but the connection fails very soon again.

Not sure what else to mention or try out. At the moment I am running the Gentoo installation again, but would like to run m0n0wall.

I hope someone can give me hints on what to try, or if I need to look up something and post it here just let me know.

Thanks in advance!

I am new with m0n0wall althought I have looked at it years back.
I've been running a Gentoo homebuild router/firewall/etc for about a year now on a Jetway J7F4 Dual Gigabit LAN 1.5GHz C7D Mini-ITX motherboard which has been stable ever since I build it.
The reason to try m0n0wall is that I don't want to spend as much time on it as I used to do, plus I got a good NAS to use for webserver and stuff.

I put m0n0wall on a 32MByte IDE flash module and set it up. Everything worked like a charm.
However, for some reason the WAN connection keeps being dropped.
First I thought it was my ISP, but putting the hard drive back in with the Gentoo installation it's alright again.

LAN side is fine and I can keep accessing the router to check logs and all that. Logs just say it lost the connection.
When I release the WAN port and let it check for a DHCP lease it gets one fine, but the connection fails very soon again.

Not sure what else to mention or try out. At the moment I am running the Gentoo installation again, but would like to run m0n0wall.

I hope someone can give me hints on what to try, or if I need to look up something and post it here just let me know.

Thanks in advance!

My first thought is driver issue, what brand/type of WAN card is in your unit?

Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet
Two of them onboard.

For full info on the boards devices check http://neverwinter.zapto.org/phpsysinfo

I've looked in the handbook, and got to the FreeBSD hardware list for NIC's and it seems my particular model isn't on it.
That is works, fully inside but dodgy on the outside, might be pure luck...

The NIC is fine, but it loses it's dhcp lease ? a release / renew fixes it for a while ?

what is the lease time you get on your ip and what version of m0n0wall are you using ?

m0n0wall version is the current stable, 1.31.
A release/renew sorta works as it takes a bit for the connection to be fully up again.
Or so it seems anyway. 30 seconds or something.

Lease time I will get back on. Just got the whole box open to do a install on HDD since I think the 32MB flash thingy broke, or the power cable has. Dodgy cable.

Got m0n0wall running from the HDD now.
Lease time on the WAN address seems to be 1450 seconds.
22 minutes up and stable...

Over 8 hours later and the connection is still up.
Let's see what happens tonight during a raid in World of Warcraft.
I know the connection was lost several times last weekend while playing. Not even doing anything but standing still.
The problems isn't/wasn't purely related to WoW btw. Even just working on this laptop talking to someone on MSN had the connection drop.

I'm starting to relate this to the power cable of the IDE flash thingy more and more.

Just a final addition here.

With the HDD it was stable for a day or two. No problems at all.
Yesterday I got the CF card and CF to SATA converter in.
Been working for over 11 hours now.