@w0w $65 plus tax and shipping.

It could be an external USB connected SSD, yes. uboot doesn't care what the actual drive is, just how it appears at boot.

@SteveITS

"Thinking out loud here" :
If a (DHCP) client was set to be rejected, it will do the reject (it will answer "no") and normally, the client should take "no" for an answer - the the sofware is RFC compliant (I guess).
Let's consider 'ISC DHCP' as the old generation.
But its 2025, the client is probably a new generation DHCP client and won't take no for an answer, do'nt bother with RFC, so it keeps on insisting.
Now, ISC DHCP start to log.

It's in the admin's authority to take things one level up. It was the admin after all who decided who to serve, and who to reject.
Go visit the client, and tell him who is boss in the town.
Next step : MAC black list the guy and call it a day.

ty! @stephenw10

Ah, a bad/failing cable would certainly be a problem!

If it does persist i would try reassigning LAN to on of the other igc ports. See if the problem follows it.

@stephenw10 this has been a learning curve for me.
I thought I was going to couch up some $$$ for support, but Support came to the rescue. They did a great job and were quick to respond.
thanks for those who responded... now my journey continues

@stephenw10

Thank you. I'll try to absorb what you just said.

@patient0,stephenw10,

I do want to express my gratidude for kindly pointing out my failures of execution in utilizing the GUI properly. I fully appreciate the difficulties of writing words that describe the intent of a GUI.
Again, Thanks.

@deceptivehorse said in Netgate hardware selection:

Could you provide the website you got this from? Tried PassMark Software as Lawrence Systems uses it in the 5100 review but can't find information on the C3338R there.

You are right, I did use two sources: For one Passmark for C3338 vs C3558 (Factor 1:2.4) and a ServeTheHome comparison for the Intel Atom C3338R V C3338 Performance (Factor 1:1.2).

Well I won't go much higher. You don't have much RAM to play with. Maybe 160MB.

@scottlindner Wrong subject? :) Agreed but they document it. It’s a bit worse changing models or reinstall/restore because I always have to look up which to use.

Mmm, you wouldn't expect to find all the backup config files to have to same date. It does sound like maybe it was overwriting the backups with changes as it tried to boot repeatedly.

@b3rt Re-reading your responses and saw the ports being used in the photo... just wanted to confirm what I am seeing..............
VLAN 20 = ports used are 1 and 5, both tagged,, maybe port 1 is AP and port 5 is uplink?

VLAN 10 = ports 1;2;3;5 all tagged using static IP? maybe printer, NAS etc? port 5 is uplink?

VLAN 1 = ports 4, 5 port 4 for maintenance laptop and 5 uplink?

If I am correct, then this shows I can remove all ports on Native VLAN except for uplink / Trunk (port 5)?

Yup that^

But that is the correct MD5 hash for that file so it looks like an issue with your Etcher install somehow.

It depends why they stopped repsonding and how unresponsive they actually are.

If it has some network issue I would expect it to keep logging as normal.

If it had some drive or filesystem error it may continue to function for some time but be unable to log anything.

It can lock up hard and stop logging or responding entirely but that is far less common. Usually some low level OS bug.

😁

@binary_bandit said in monitoring hardware on 8300 units:

Hello all,

Has anyone been able to monitor the hardware on the 8300 appliances?

I've been unable to set up SMTP alerts using the Insyde IPMI controller. I've also explored SNMP using the IPMI controller, but can not locate an MIB that provides access to the BMC sensors.

I'd like to know if a power supply failed, fan stops spinning, etc.

best,
James
Thank You for sharing this experience, James!

This is another BIG REASON for fraction of the Netgate’s price (sorry) buying IBM/Dell/Fujitsu bare metal 2xCPU STOCK server, upgrade it for maximum performance, installing Mellanox NICs and have no problem with pesky problems with SuperMicro’s impotence to make normally worked BMC (search on this forum about problems with BMC-interaction software ("Supervyse" looks like Netgate’s customization of Supermicro's “SuperWEB” interface that are on top of Insyde Software Corporation firmware with ASPEED AST2620-A3 chipset) and .MIB profile file.

But, if Netgate (which declared himself as “world's leading firewall, router, and VPN solution for network edge and cloud secure networking. With millions of installations worldwide” HAVE NO RESOURCES (or NOT SEE ANY REASONS) TO MAKE PROPER .MIB FILE FOR MONITORING SO CRITICAL NETWORK APPLIENCE, You may try to editing by yourself the .MIB file from Supermicro which are supplied with this model of motherboard

No any guarantee, but with 90% probabilities - this “hint” may be working, because very rarely middle/small size brands spending resources for changing anything around BMC firmware. More frequently- just changing the label picture on web interface pages and in CLI…:)

If I have a time, I try this and report about results…

P.S.
For now I am completely sure that for enterprises Zabbix are outdated 5-7 years ago (but still used in many enterprises around the world), and better building the monitoring solutions based on Prometheus (with Vector.dev/Clickhouse for DB) + Grafana.
Of course, vanilla Prometheus + Grafana (better choice) or LibreNMS would be 100% enough for monitoring for small companies or for home users.