You need to enter 'N' ( assuming you don't need VLANs) then assign the WAN and LAN appropriately.

In CE you (almost) always have to assign the interfaces at the first boot after install.

If if gets fixed it will be in 25.07.

@SteveITS I agree, I thought that may have been an issue so I restarted the VM setup ensuring the disk was fixed at, I think I set 15GB? Still ran into the same original issue where it wouldn't format initially. 🤷

@Gertjan and others:
It was very helpful to understand that pfsense has a lockout which I had not seen before. What complicated issues further was that every now and again the connection between my browser and the pfsense firewall would go down momentarily. I traced that to an Ethernet NIC - after testing it with other machines. I would just watch the ping between 2 workstations connected directly by ethernet with no intervening switches or routers and every 2-20 minutes, the ping would not be returned for maybe 20 seconds. I am sure that this did not help. Exactly what effect it would have, I'm not sure - maybe receiving a spurious version of my pw etc. But I admit that I don't really know. So perhaps this was a combination of being locked out, problems with the NIC and general incompetence on my part ;)

As far as I can tell, there are no remaining login problems. So thanks to all who responded.

Check Diag > System Activity. It might be a stuck pkg process.

@stephenw10 Tks my friend.... A project for this week end when my wife goes to sleep :-)

And my customers too.... ( I have 2 sites... Site two can handle the load ( eMails gateway..... oops I'm sharing too much)

Yes, that should be fine.

@stephenw10
That was the DNS resolver configuration issue.
Outgoing Network Interfaces was set to "ALL".
I have changed it to "Localhost"
Decided not to use DNS Query Forwarding in the resolver.
Enabled DNSSEC Support.
Enabled Prefetch Support and Prefetch DNS Key Support.

All packages restored successfully.
Now I understand why my upgrade 2.6.0 to 2.7.0 was painfully slow.

@stephenw10

@stephenw10 said in SG-1100 Won’t Reboot on Upgrade - no internet access!:

Yeah I could see that. Thanks for the feedback, I'll pass that up the chain.

Much appreciated!

My new 1100 came in and is hooked up - no problem with that! I still have the troublesome one here, with pf+ on the USB stick. If there's anything I've encountered that it would help if I tested it, this is a good time to do that. I don't think there was anything outstanding, just the issue of pass-through and the subnet range. All the other issues that are unresolved could be explained if the internal storage is wonky.

No worries. It is a legitimate bug. You should just be able to import it. But because it's already fixed it's unlikely to see much traction in 2.7.2. At least there's a relatively easy workaround. 😉

@stephenw10 thanks! I’ve sent it on the chat

@mircea-manea The NDI changes if you change NICs. If you contact Netgate I believe they will move the license, possibly a limited number of times.

Or remove the NIC...

Hmm, so what changed? Were you using the non-serial memstick previously?

It depends what OVH wants.

1:1 NAT is useful if one that one host will ever use the IP address. Just remember there are no firewall rules added automatically. You need to add rules for everything required.

@stephenw10

thanks for your support.

I install it from scratch and import the config and it is working fine know.
I don't know what was wrong.

my advice to everyone is that to make daily or weekly backup at least if you don't change the config a lot to save your life .

It definitely uses com1:

uart0: <Non-standard ns8250 class UART with FIFOs> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 16 flags 0x10 on acpi0 ... uart0: console (115200,n,8,1)