What's the ambient temperature there?

That's not worryingly hot but it probably could be cooler with better air flow.

If you enable .q mode like that it will break your other VLANs until you add them in the switch setup.

You have VLAN 10 shown as a WiFi network there, is that correct?
If it is you would need to pass it to the APs through the TP-Link switch too.

What you have shown there should work except that it seems odd you would have all the ports on the HP switch set to VLAN 10 hen it's not being passed tagged to it. It would only work with VLAN capable clients set to 10 in that case. I would expect to see the HP switch not using VLANs at all in this setup.

Thanks to @andrew_cb and others for bringing awareness to this. I had no idea my 6100 has limitations due to the eMMC. I went out of my way to buy a 6100 over my own router build because I just wanted to setup my router and forget about it. As someone who is fully remote the router is the last thing I can have fail.

I saw the threads on Reddit and did a quick check. Just over 1.5 years of having my 6100, it’s already at 70% wear.

I bought 2x16GB Intel Optane Drives which you can get for less than 5 euro a piece and managed to get them installed and set up in a mirror for redundancy (the drives are so cheap, I think it’s silly not too). I also 0’d out my eMMC drive to ensure it does’t cause any conflicts.

I’m not thrilled that I had to do this, I’m thankful there were M.2 ports on the 6100 that I could use. But my biggest take-away is that installing your own SSD is not “supported” and could void your warranty is unacceptable. I think there should be a well documented SSD upgrade for any device that has an available slot, it should not void the warranty, and most definitely shouldn’t be discouraged.

As a side note, I really wish the installer was offline. I was sweating bullets attempting to configure the WAN in the Installer with PPoE and VLAN tagging (don’t get me wrong, it was easy, but if it didn’t work I’d be SOL).

Hmm, that shouldn't be the case. Was it one of the very early 1100s maybe? I think we changed the supplied cable to one with a longer exposed plug at one point. Many micro-usb cables don't actually meet the spec on that, unfortunately. So if you use a different cable it should work but ymmv!

Yeah, any OpenWRT device will do VLANs. It just may be more complex if it has to be passed through a built-in switch.

Try it and ask if it doesn't work. 😉

@mcline said in After power outage netgate 4100 won't boot:

I was just googling when I cam up with the fsck command.

Youtube Netgate Official channel filecheck

For a file system check, the system needs to be unmounted = 'not actively used'.
When the system boots, the first menu, which times out pretty fast, offers you the option to do this check.

@mcline said in After power outage netgate 4100 won't boot:

Am I just screwed and my $700 FW is done because of a power outage or is there a way to replace the onboard storage and re-image it?

The 'good' news :
Disks die all the time.... whatever technology you use.
I have a 4100 also, and changing the disk isn't 'easy' but it is possible. The only sad thing is that it will be a ones in a live time experience, as you will probably stop using the build in nvme and shift to what is actually the MAX (SSD) version. Afterwards, statically, it won't be the drive anymore if something fails in our 4100..

Theoretically it could. I've never tried. It would need to be m.2.

@scruzuser Netgate TAC will convert the config file for you for free.

Otherwise yes it’s possible. When restoring you are asked to assign interfaces. There is a pitfall or two there, or was…IIRC you must click Save before Apply.

The 1100 uses VLANs to separate the ports so keep the VLAN/switch config.

Yup the combo port will only link at 1G in the SFP port.

@stephenw10 it worked brother! not sure what else I can but thanks!

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Ultimately the only recourse for this (and subsequently additional) 4100s that died on me was to remove the emmc by desoldering it. Then I was able to boot the installer properly and install to NVMe. While not for the inexperienced, desoldering the eMMC really wasn't to difficult given the designers left plenty of room around it to work.

@stephenw10 just tested that worked great. Error suppressed now.

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@gweempose
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/certificates/renew.html#renew-or-reissue-options

The defaults should be fine. More useful for very old certs at this point to get them up to date security wise.

@jared-silva said in Migrating Netgate 1100 from eMMC to USB flash storage to keep it FIT:

@keyser the net installer will try to boot USB3 over USB2, so I would try putting installation media into USB3 and your USB to SATA bridge into USB2, just for troubleshooting purposes to eliminate any timing issues.

Yes now that you mention it, I remember doing it this way too.

@mal Does your 6100 have the same light behavior as this (4100)?

Pressing and holding the power button appears to attempt to do something after about ten seconds (it was non responsive with a five second push) according to the eight diagnostic led's changing on the circuit board but still no output on the console, no activity on the USB key and the orange circle of death remains. In this post power button pushed for 12 second state the lit led's on the board are:
FLASH (immediately above RESET)
V3P3A

In its steady state after applying power or after pressing the power button after the above press and hold the following led's on the board are lit:
PWRGD
PWRGD
PWRGD
V3P3A

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/173106/netgate-4100-circle-shows-red-led/16