I figured it out. My port labeled WAN seems to be bad now. I had 4 spare ports so I used OPT4 and now all is back to normal. I'm guessing that the lightning I have had in my area lately might have caused the issue.

I tried option 3 but it only reset the main login password not the lightsquid password

Make sure your PuTTY serial settings are: Speed/baud 115200 Data bits 8 Stop bits 1 Parity None Flow control XON/XOFF Do not connect power to the device until putty is setup and ready to go. There are a lot of early boot messages that may be helpful. Then, follow the re-image instructions given above.

@radjanoonan This is not a problem. 2.0GB is the maximum recommended swap partition/file. Shrink your pagefile or swap partition size. Or, just get rid of swap all together, as it's normally not needed.

Hi, Max power consumption for XG-7100-1U is 120W while idle should be at 20W. Thanks!

Thanks @TheNarc , I had a hunch that the modem was doing something nasty - I just never think about leased hardware being bad from design. Glad to know I wasn't barking up the wrong tree on this side. Advised to get a replacement from his provider or consider buying his own. And yes, he has always had mild connection issues - he noticed occasional poor call quality on the phone even when it was SW->IPSEC->SW (behind the same modem) before I touched anything, but the sg-1000 seems to have much more trouble with it. And @moikerz - no worries; you'd probably yell at me worse if I told you how many VLANS I am successfully running off of how small a LAGG on the main office LAN (and that's probably not even my worst sin on this setup). Turns out that the IT culture at a construction company doesn't ask for much and is willing to put up with a lot. Of course what they do ask for tends to be either trivially easy or impossible shy of some hacks. Try telling some of the hard-hat side of the company that they are behind too many layers of NAT and let me know how that goes :P And the only reason I mentioned the pings is because I saw SEVERAL over 10ms pings over a single cable, I do recognize that ping is a very poor indicator of connection quality.

I would prob chime in on the linked to arp-watch broken thread as well. And maybe even the redmine listed in that thread. Mine has been rock solid since removing arpwatch..

Hello, i'm new to the SG-3100, but from what I've learned in a few months, the issue is related to FreeBSD on ARM architecture. It's unlikely there will be a fix, as that issue you linked is more than 2 years old. Others have reported that VLAN port assignments do not affect throughput, so I think the limiting factor in this situation is definitely PPPoE.

WAN will certainly function as a DHCP client. That would be the default behavior. I would disconnect the existing wan, power cycle the modem, let it come up and get synced, then connect the 7100 WAN interface.

There are ZERO current wifi tech cards that are supported... Do yourself a favor - get a real AP and place where it will have good coverage. Which 99.99% of the time is nowhere near or in you router.. Or if you can not properly place say a POE AP in the Ceiling - then get some of the mesh AP you plug in around the house/location, etc. if you want your router/firewall/wifi in 1 device then sorry pfsense which runs on freebsd is just not the correct solution..

The SG-3100 hardware uses an ARM 32-bit CPU instead of an Intel CPU, thus it has an ARM-based FreeBSD kernel. Could be that Netmap support is not enabled in the ARM version of FreeBSD. You should be able to call Netgate tech support for more information. Enabling Netmap in the AMD64 builds of FreeBSD is done by switching on a kernel compile option.

It's not from Netgate, and we don't officially endorse it in any way, but if you have (or have access to) a 3D printer, this is also an option: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2864343

If you enabled /tmp and /var in RAM then you need to specify their size. If your rule updates ran the RAM disks out of space, you need to increase the size of those. They can't be sized dynamically, and there isn't a way for pfSense to know how much space you need there, so the burden is on the admin to set the proper sizes.

@johnpoz Thanks, they were able to help me out. Useful to know how to get these images outside of initial warranty period. Pablo

Configuring a switch from a port on that switch (any switch) always has the possibility to lock you out, etc, if you are not very careful. I would at least temporarily enable, number, and add a firewall rule for the OPT port, connect a laptop there, and configure the switch. That way you won't lock yourself out.