Thanks for the replies, and I appreciate the insights, Gerjan. I got my hands on a cable and tried it out, but no dice. Latest driver installed, attempting to connect w/ Putty, and there's nothing. I've created a ticket as suggested by Chris Macmahon. Hoping Netgate can help me out as it would be a shame if a $300+ device was already dead.

From 7 months ago? Probably the SG-1100 or maybe the SG-5100 as well.

That is the default, untagged VLAN. The switchports you connect the XG-7100 untagged ports to can put that traffic on whatever VLAN you choose by setting the PVID/native VLAN on those switchports.

@hbauer said in confidentiality of serial numbers and netgate ids: Does this mean somebody else is able to by support with my id? And if yes what happens if somebody buys support and then later I want to buy support to? You would thank them, since support is per device and tied to the ID, you would have access to support if your ID was used in that way.

If you get serial console on one 8860 and not another using the same terminal device and cable, I would open a ticket at https://go.netgate.com/ so warranty status can be determined.

@grimson Pretty new to these appliances, when I get an option on a WWW interface it gives the impression it is no big deal and it should just work. Your instructions make it seem more like something that is much more finicky. I do not have much more to tell you about the details, the www interface got to a point it said it was completed successfully and stayed there. I tried to go to the diagnostics -> reboot but at that point it was hung. When I got to the console after it was power cycled, which was the instructions from a Netgate documentation page that did not say use the console to try it. The www interface never came back. The errors are all around .so and .dll files not found and unable to load libraries. I just got a portal account and downloaded the image file, will burn it and reload the unit. See where it stands and then reload the config XML file and hopefully be back where I started. Thanks you for your help.

Everything should be the same as any TAP bridge. You'll just have OPT and LAN on the same switch VLAN.

I should add that the OpenVPN connection is successful and the Tunnel IP address is assigned corectly from the remote server.

44C here... Mine is sitting on my desk on top of 28 port switch and 4 pi's sitting on top of it... Wife keeps the house at 68F

SG-3100 seems a little on the low-end side for an ISP. SG-5100 is probably closer. If it was me I'd probably be looking more at an HA pair of XG-1537s with 4-port expansion cards. Load balancing should work fairly well for them. I'd turn on sticky connections but I would still expect the occasional problem. https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/book/multiwan/load-balancing-and-failover.html#problems-with-load-balancing

Ok, that makes sense now after trying to configure what I wanted and reading that again. I will try to assign multiple VLANs to the to the OPT1 mvneta0 and see if they will all trunk downstream to my Cisco switch

Are you trunking those VLANs out of Eth3-5 to the switches? Can we see your switch config in the XG-7100. Steve

@jhavlat said in SG-1100 router on a stick?: Are you suggesting i'm better off spending $900 on a XG-7100 with 8 ports The XG-7100 is a very nice device tho. -Rico

Hi fjsantos, I'm also interested in adquire a XG-7100 in spain. Could you recommend the partner ? Thanks.

Make sure you have working console access, in case you accidentally remove all network access to the WebUI.