@tinfoilmatt We use Zabbix, along with the script and template created by rbicelli.
I have my own fork of the script and template that I can post later.

Zabbix Agent and Proxy packages are available in pfSense (including Zabbix 7.0 in 24.11!).

You will need to set up a Zabbix server, which is pretty easy to do.

vfs.dev.write is the agent function for getting disk write activity.

@aaronouthier Any luck? DM me if you need a hand -- I have an OpenWRT device here I can test steps against for an external AP that should be a comparable config to what you're wanting to do.

@petesei nice - how well does it fit on the 4200, is it less bowed top than it seems in the pics?

edit: oh I still owed you a picture - I might still do it, planning on pulling the rack out here when my replacement dock for my work laptop gets here so I can run a wire to the dock. Got back from my trip and it had died. I got a cheap hub off amazon to hold me so could still use both my monitors vs just the laptop screen.

But in mean time - I noticed on the link I gave they show exactly how I have mine setup ;)

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Oh and didn't mention before - I have my pi sitting on top of the fan, so it does double duty.. Dropped my pi temp quite a bit as well

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The pi dropped a good 15 F with sitting on top of the fan ;) if not 20..

@stbellcom How did you remove the eMMC from the 6100? I have a dead 6100 and would like to do the same. Thanks.

@arri THANK YOU! I lack the reputation needed to upvote your comment, but THANK YOU! I never even thought about ripping that chip out.

Here's my story:

Dec 25: router died. (Merry Christmas! At least it didn't harm too many other people.) Serial console worked; diagnosed a bad eMMC w/ help from TAC. Found an M.2 drive that worked, and reinstalled the OS then restored settings from backup.

March 30: Died again! This time the console's dead. Tried "everything".
Found your post mentioning desoldering it. Found a chip labeled "Kingston" and decided that must be it (but looked up part# to confirm). Attacked the face of the chip with a flamethrower, er, butane utility lighter, while mercilessly gouging and stabbing it with a sharp little screwdriver. Continued punishment until it flew screaming off the PCB, carrying PCB traces with it. Regretted not using more flame and less physical force. Scraped off traces still hanging on, ensured that nothing left on the board was touching anything that it shouldn't.

Powered it up with fire extinguisher nearby (and video camera running in case it went up in a glorious ball of flame and made my son scream as it tried to do to him what I did to it) and...it booted! Replaced heat sink grease (even dabbed some on the RAM chips that were naked before), wadded up a ball of masking tape and set it on top of the battery to replace the retainer clip that we broke earlier, and screwed everything back together.

Back in operation! No data loss this time -- best outcome possible. Lesson learned: A bad eMMC that was "harmless" before can become "harmful" 3 months later!

What switch do you have on the LAN side currently? Is it linked at 2.5G to the pfSense LAN and 1G to the clients?

Try setting the LAN side link to 1G when the WAN at 2.5G so the bandwidth change is in pfSense not the switch.

If it's in the switch you pretty much need flowcontrol active to avoid buffer overruns.

@johndoe102 I know it is boring but please add a switch between pfSense and your PC on LAN2 (the 4200 does not have a built-in switch, in contrast to the 2100).

The log shows LAN2/opt2/igc1 going up/down a few times in half a minute or so. That triggers a whole lot of scripts each time, wan restart is one of them. Removes and adds the gateway and so on.

The new installer version will have options to set the zpool name which also avoids that.

@johndoe102 said in Netgate 4200 thermal question:

In my case , my Netgate 4200 is placed in the basement with ambient temperature of 16-18 C and I also had about 50 C of the CPU temperature. So I decided to place a 140mm fan running all the time on top of the Netgate 4200 and now I have about 20-24 C

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I had a similar situation with mine. Sticking a fan to the top cut the temps to about half.

Can you replicate the failure with the console already connected? That may show why it's going to standby.

@stephenw10 Looking at the same Redmine again it looks like Marcos M edited his first note recently in the last few days compared to the first several times I saw it there, now stating that it doesn't work as he first thought they found with the Linux version of it, so please disregard, will remove

You can also try upgrading from the console to see all the output from the upgrade and where it's stopping.

I have a startech one and works great on my 6100

@stephenw10 thanks you were spot on.

I got to work and used a Cisco Switch as an access switch. It was easier to test the client connectivity, and I got this to work by leaving the switch default.

When I removed VLAN 10 from the ports, I could ping the gateway and DHCP started working.

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Appreciate your input regarding the to add VLAN 10 to the tp-link switch to get wifi working.

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!