Nope, still unsure!

I have kinda given up. After talking to two people at Netgate TAC its confirmed that this router can NO do 10gbit, and not even close. If you are going to do anything real world that include the firewall, vlans etc. it will give you 2-3 git at MOST on a good day. The hardware is just not capable of anything else. This is the numbers Netgate is giving me, but most plausible the hardware caps out at around 1.5gbit if you are running from LAN to WAN with firewall and some packet analyzing on.

If you are not booting from eMMC the system never writes to it so it's never going to get anywhere near the ware limit. You should have no problems.

Steve

You should be able to restore a 5100 config there and just reassign the interfaces.

If you have a number of sub-interfaces like VLANs or PPP etc you might want to just edit the config directly. There is risk doing that.

If you open a ticket with us we can convert your old config to allow you to import it directly into the 8200.

Steve

Nice result! 👍

Yup, exactly. Then assign them and add dhcp servers and firewall rule etc.

If you send me your NDI in chat I may be able to retrieve the device key. You'll still need the encryption password of course.

@jucaboes said in 2100 end of life:

I have been told by a local partner in my country that the 4100 appliance was discontinued last month.

This was the case due to a parts shortage but I believe there has been a new shipment made.

End of SALE, however, does not mean END OF LIFE. EOL means no more updates, patches, etc.

End of sale means no more sale. But as I understand it we have new product coming so your reseller should have updated information soon.

For reference: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/xg-7100-1u/switch-overview.html

I appreciate all the support I received on here, but today I ended up returning my 8200. mostly it was me misunderstanding the advertised throughput values. I somehow either had the non-Firewalled or the TNSR values in my head which became my expectations. I was achieving 5Gb/s download speed pretty consistently, but needed a beefier box in order to exceed that so I'm going to be switching back to a DIY build (probably not as much overkill as I had before though).

I had the same problem and the root cause was different : the date on the router was erroneous, so the certificate was "not yet valid" from the router point of view.

The solution was to fix NTP server and wait few seconds for time synchronization (like in 99108)

@stephenw10

Hopefully we don't have a reoccurrence (although this device has had it happen twice in two weeks now) but should have console connected to the 5 known devices this seems to happen to.. all appear to have the same symptoms so hopefully capturing one will provide answers for all...

Oh cross posted. Yes you have an early version with the MMC 4.5 chip. That doesn't report lifetime data.

@Cabledude A summer house (even though it is TINY) is such a privilige that I cannot even begin to tell you how lucky I feel🙏

Yeah, I got the base model in both cases - and upgraded them both with a 500Gb'ish SSD because I - luckily - realized soon enough that my use of logging, pfBlockerNG, NtopNG and Syslog-NG would kill the eMMC on both boxes in short order.
I stage logs for my switch and access points on each site in Syslog-NG, filters it and transfers it with TCP to my Raspberry Pi log analyzer (Geeky - i know....😂)

The 6100 is way overkill for 1000/1000 - it is never above 20% utilization on CPU or Memory. It would require use of the 10Gbe interfaces to go higher - but at least a have that for future use now.
At the time there was no 4100 which would be the much more obvious and sufficient choice. The 3100 which was the alternative was going EOL and already suffered from not being a 64bit device (no ZFS filesystem fx.), so that was never actually in play.

@JonathanLee wan.jpg

My connection with fidium has been great ... 1g plan and they credit me $10/month for having my own router. 2.5g rj45 on the ont to my 6100.

Yup that or go to Diag > States and filter on the LAN for :123

@stephenw10 co-sign

It would be interesting to see the output from:

[23.05.1-RELEASE][root@8200-2.stevew.lan]/root: sysctl -a | grep fw_version dev.qat.0.fw_version: 4.18.0 dev.ix.3.fw_version: eTrack 0x80000889 dev.ix.2.fw_version: eTrack 0x80000889 dev.ix.1.fw_version: eTrack 0x8000084b PHY FW V65535 dev.ix.0.fw_version: eTrack 0x8000084b PHY FW V65535

If running some other OS did change anything I'd expect it to show there.

Steve