Is it a very early one with a 4GB eMMC drive? The Net Installer won't install into 4GB. If that's what you have I'd open a TAC ticket and request the legacy installer for that reason. https://www.netgate.com/tac-support-request Steve

Ah, OK. The eMMC is fixed and non-replacable in both. The 2100 can boot and run from an m.2 SSD at any time including if the emmc fails.

It should be possible. I just used a 16GB USB flash drive when I tested it.

Anyone with Netgate hardware. Just open a TAC ticket.

Hmm, that's weird. I've seen SFP ports behave oddly across a power cycle, especially with connecting module before vs after boot. But the ix driver was patched to still allow it to attach.

I've invested some money in https://allegro.pl/oferta/cooler-master-chlodzaca-notepal-cmc3-do-15-czarna-13685545513 - this device cooled my 6100 MAX from 55-56C to 36-37C. [image: 1716886747483-6100max-cooled-resized.png]

So you got the correct image and recovered it OK? The 3100 internal switch port would always have required tagging there to pass tagged traffic to the internal NIC. It's possible the docs were updated but it wouldn't have worked without it.

@stephenw10 Well, to be clear... it was on rebooting I got the error message. It has been explained to me that tmpfs(?) has taken over ramdisk duties. With only two gigs I'm more comfortable going back to a community appliance I built. Taking the 3100 to a cabin in the woods and letting time sort out what NextGate I might get. Thanks for all the help. Couldn't be more appreciated.

@stephenw10 Just wanted to give a final update on my issue. I ended up buying a small e-lnk (LNK-M3011-SFP) converter instead of my large ISP box and it worked without any problems. Thanks again for all the help and support

@stephenw10 said in Unable to upgrade firmware on SG1100: compat recovery image. Will do. Thank you I'm surprised because one of the forum posts said Nov 22 was good (but Nov 1 wasn't)

you are right gents, if there is no simple workaround, the rest is economically viable - thanks for your time, I'll trash it :/

The front and rear LEDs are wired in parallel, they should always show identically. Each of the 3 LEDs are tri-colour so each has red, green and blue Hence 3 of each.

@Kermee Agreed, it was a very smooth process for me as well. Migrating from the 3100 on our 250/250 + 5G Internet connections, I find the 4200 waaay over-powered with a CPU load ~3% where-as the 3100 was steadily around 35-40%. The two remote offices still on 3100s will receive 2100s to keep the costs reasonable.

You may have old ZFS BEs using disk space. But you should install an m.2 SATA drive in the 5100 if you need to log a lot to it. It's especially important on the 5100 because the eMMC failing due to drive writes can result it in not booting at all. Steve

@stephenw10 thanks all working - except the haproxy which seems to be related to the update of the package. hoping someone can help. necroed a very old thread with my old config. Thanks for your very fast responses.

@stephenw10 Ahh OK I thought that a port-channel between 3 interfaces on the pfsense 2100 and a Cisco switch might result in greater bandwidth. But if the internal PFSense switch can only pass one 1Gbps then I can remove the complexity and just use a single port. Thanks for your insight.

@darnoldvcs said in Netgate 1537 cannot achieve 10G throughput: I guess that processor has more grunt that the Xeon D 1537. They should be hard enough for the 10 GBit/s also Supermicro is selling devices with such SOC´s and soldering 4 * 10 GBit/s port on it. I can achieve 10G with 5 threads on the 1537, and I appreciate I would need more interfaces to achieve the marketing numbers of 18+GB. The 18+GB would in my eyes the plain routing power! Please don´t mismatch with firewall rules on top or vpn traffic.

@stephenw10 Yes, of course you're right. I was thinking my Calix ONT was the GP110X with only 2.5GBaseT, but it's the GP1101X w/10GbE.

@Brad303 In view of other discussions on this topic, I'm curious about how hot it runs.