Re: A lazy Sonicwall SOHO2 firewall appliance

From: Tanssaafl (Tanssaafl_at_Tanssaafl.com)
Date: 10/05/03 

Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 17:02:40 GMT

One of my clients had the same problem with their SOHO2. They had to unplug
it and power it back on almost daily. I spent many, MANY hours with
SonicWall support (even sent two units back to them) and the client's ISP
(who supplied the fractional T-1), but the problem still happened. Finally
(after more than a year) we replaced an old computer with a new one and the
problem stopped. My assumption is that a faulty network card was causing
the problem.

Dave

"Adam Leinss" <aleinss@toughguy.net> wrote in message
news:Xns940AE31163BC4aleinsstoughguynet@toughguy.net...
> Hello. I bought a SOHO2 Sonicwall firewall appliance a few weeks ago
> from eBay. It works great, except I have to bounce it every night
> because it seems to go to "sleep". My Internet connection will all of
> a sudden stop working. If I ping the firewall at that point, I get no
> response. If I power cycle the firewall, it fires right back up and my
> Internet connection hums along just fine again. Last night, I had to
> reset the firewall 3 times! I was able to pull down 1.8 GB tonight
> before it happened (thus only one reset). Seems to happen when I come
> home from work and start using the Internet heavily (i.e. I never have
> came home and had to bounce the firewall, it was still working all
> day). Here's my setup:
>
> Surfboard SB3100 Cable Modem --> Sonicwall SOHO2 Firewall Appliance -->
> Linksys BEFW11S4
>
> And I am using the latest firmware for the firewall.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam

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