@macmichael01 said in Is it possible to install pi-hole along side of pfsense on my netgate 1100: I have a netgate 1100 gateway and was wondering if it's at all possible to install pi-hole along side with pfsense. Yepp I just set the pfSense DHCP (DNS Option) to point to my Pihole. Then i can control if i want Pihole used - Per vlan (I only use it on my Phone , Guest & MMedia vlans) You could also let "pfSense Unbound" use it , and make Pihole be used globally.

I imagine the hardware is compatible, would say go ahead and give it a shot and see how it goes.

@stephenw10 You may have caught this thread: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/183123/23-09d-is-qat-broken/42?_=1696239799286 ️

The SG-1000 and SG-2220 are limited by their CPUs not the NIC link speed. You might be able to get slightly more with some tuning but neither will ever come close to an 8200(?). Steve

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Some of those mesh devices can only work in full 'mesh' mode when they are also acting as a router. You don't want that, you want pfSense to be the only router and the APs to be pure layer 2 devices. Other than that any AP should work. Personally I would always choose something that can run OpenWRT if possible. I've been running those for years and am spoiled by the flexibility that offers. But if you have a lot of APs across numerous sites you probably want some commercial offering.

@Phizix Thank you for your kind compliment...with the plastic still on the Dell logo, your kids are right...very noice indeed!

I don't need reboot to reconnect, just wait a moment.

Another model reference. The Sophos SG 115w (rev 2) - Intel E3827 (@ 1.74GHz), 4GB DDR3L, and 64GB SSD (SATA 6Gbps). Bios adjustments change boot order so usb stick is first disable the 60/40 emulation changed the comm port speed to 115200 Installed the pfSense v2.7 CE memstick build without any complaints. eth0 = wan eth1 = lan eth2 = OPT1 eth3 = OPT2 ath0 = Wireless Only issue I had with the few units was the cmos battery needed to be re-taped down, otherwise no issues.

Not in that mode I don't think there is. Unless the modem itself has a mgmt interface you can access. Windows almost certainly does it via an mbim interface and FreeBSD doesn't support that.

Got it, Thank you @stephenw10

You're workaround also fixed the issue for me! The issue on my machine was not because of manual disconnects; it was when probably renewing DHCP every 24h. Sometimes it would not come back online and it would give: « CHAT: The modem is not responding to "AT" at ModemCmd: label. » Error in log. power_off and power_on solved it without having to reboot the whole machine. Seems like for some reason /dev/cuaU0.2 was locked also but it doesn't appear in the logs.

Unfortunately the bios doesn't have the option to do anything with memory except enable/disable ecc. I may try disabling ecc and see if I can then use some non ecc ram I have around that I know is good. Thanks

@pantigon did you have any luck with cx255?

@stephenw10 Good morning.. No pcaps, and logs are probably still on the system. We've had to replace the system. We've changed network card after network card, and at best this has to be static electricity damage to the motherboard. On changing network cards, no matter how many times we applied the configuration, no dice. On reboot, it's back to square one. Put back in old network cards, no problem except now even though with hardware offloading off, by next day the network is crawling to a stop, so enough milling around, We're beating a dead horse at this point. Will be ordering Netgate replacement, but in meantime, we're running CE on VM. So, I'm not sure what kind of spike or transient got through, but now it appears two switches at other locations are affected as well.