Windows GUI Node Tip

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I was having one of my Windows nodes randomly stopped working.
Service was running but no traffic.
After many troubleshooting, I realized it was the NIC Power management that was on.
Once I shut it off, no more problems. Might help someone and avoid DQed.

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Care to share which exact NIC and driver version you are using?

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Well, apparently it’s something else :frowning:

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1-1700Ă—468 22.9 KB
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21368Ă—507 226 KB

Someone else having this?

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The 118 satellite is shutdown, so everyone see this.
Regarding traffic - there is fluctuations as well, nothing new. I would not expect a constant traffic, except audits.
If you see the audit requests in your logs and they are successful downloaded - then your node working fine.
You also can check your Audit score on each satellite to be sure.

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But I get notifications from uptimerobot and when I check my node the port is closed.
If I restart the service, dashboard shows offline.
When I reboot it, it starts working.

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This is weird. Could you check your router? Perhaps it has some “optimization NAT” feature enabled, which closes port after a while.

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Indeed @Alexey, I’m an IT. Besides having portforwarded now, I even tested in the DMZ!!
It’s weird as F!
And the thing is, when I reboot it, I have to manually start storage node and update services, because after the reboot they’re both stopped.
Uninstall and reinstall?

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I’ve noticed intermittent port closure when ddos protection is on on my router. Could be worth a look.

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Thanks @BrightSilence, I thought of that, but I have no DDoS protection on my router. I disabled the router firewall though. It’s online for 30 consecutive hours…which is a record :stuck_out_tongue:

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Well that seems a little extreme. Make sure you don’t do that with direct addressable IPv6 systems on that network. Won’t be anything protecting them that way.

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Thank you for your feedback, IPv6 DHCP is disabled on my network :smiley:
I have firewall disabled, but now where are it, I’m going to enable it again, just to troubleshoot for sure.

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Yup, firewall enabled for over 80 hours and node running @BrightSilence.
Weird as F…the only difference was configuring DDNS service on the router itself instead of the Windows DUC client.