I also experienced this problem intermittently but for a couple of days, I just can´t use the network if the DappNode is connected, every hour or so it makes the router restart.
What I tried in the past is completely disabling IPFS (although I wouldn´t get updates on the node), changing Geth to remote, and limiting the peers to 7.
In the current state, the box is unusable.
I´ll try to use a light-Geth, disable IPFS completely, and see if it runs without crashing my router.
We’ve been operating a dappnode ethereum beacon chain validator (geth / prysm) for over a year and it was very stable until the end of last month. beginning on feb 28, it began to throw network adapter reset errors and go offline. a few days later it happened again. beginning last friday, the adapter reset errors take the host offline least once a day. the machine doesn’t crash, but the network connection drops and doesn’t reconnect.
concurrently, we’re running a gnosis beacon chain validator on dappnode os. it had been running nicely from late december until mid february, when it began to crash every week, then almost every day, and now every few hours.
I’ve tried implementing fixes suggested on the debian forums [Disabling TSO, GSO and GRO; disabling TCP checksum, disabling aspm, etc], but have yet to find a solution that works.
all went down again within an hour of me leaving the work yesterday. a ubuntu-based node running on the same class c also lost network connectivity as well. this morning, i powered down all dappnode validator host machines & the ubuntu machine, unplugged them and the hub, & reconnected then powered them back on. i’m “pausing” the ipfs process on the dappnodes & will see if that helps. if that doesn’t work, i may be down to checking the hardware to verify that everything is seated properly (to “check the box” on the basic troubleshooting list). running low on better ideas.
Well, this time the IPFS trick did not last more than a day and the router is back to rebooting so I simply disconnected the Dappnode until I can spend more time debugging the problem.
I hope someone can find a solution because exiting the validator has not been an option I considered until now, with this awful problem.
i’ve noticed that, whenever these NIC reset errors occur to our gnosis beacon chain validator host, the os crashes and the xdai nethermind execution client data repository is corrupted. not sure whether all of this is causation or correlation…
i started to consider the scenario of exiting the validator set also. we have a fairly robust perimeter firewall, yet these problems began only a day or two before the Ukraine situation blew up, & just when the cybersecurity forums began warning of an upswing in threat-actor activity. but maybe i’m just paranoid…
Each vertical line is a router reset. I resolved the issue at 03/15 23:00.
Generally I’m very happy with the DappNode product. This resource set me on the right track. To further improve the product I’d like to make some suggestions.
Setting IPFS to remote should automatically disable IPFS on the node
I don’t think running IPFS locally should be the default setting
The recommended monitoring tooling do not offer any insight in network consumption in terms of bandwidth. The grafana dashboard supports it, but no metrics are collected out of the box.
No moderator/support agent responded to this thread over the course of two weeks, even though it is apparently a well-known issue that IPFS can hog bandwidth and take down cheaper routers.
