Further (final?) thermal improvement:

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The ambient temperature has increased over the period of testing, so the actual improvement is probably slightly better than shown above.

I added extended feet to the front of the small laptop cooler so the front is slightly higher by 1º. With the ports on the 6100 at the front this raises the exposed part of the heatsink fins above the more enclosed (LED) end.

The added airflow and removal of the air trapped behind the plastic case made quite a difference to the performance of the heatsink. Silicom should have trimmed the plastic cover on the LED-side of the heatsink in the same way as the port-equipped side.

Compilation graph of the various orientations, elevations and now the tilt:

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Of course, in any orientation it wasn't close to bursting into flames or anything.

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I have used both in mine with no issue. Because the system is far from you, did you make and mail the USB drives or did a local make the USB drive? Maybe the USB drive is not bootable.

@stephenw10 Thanks Steve, it seems that there is a lot to learn about ZFS before I open the feature request.
Once I feel more comfortable about it, I'll confirm if this is indeed a good idea.

Thanks 👍

At one time that was possible however it cannot be done in 23.05. There was a regression in the upstream ath driver that prevented it loading on armv7 and the number of people using it didn't justify the development effort at the time. I was one of the few users running wifi cards in 3100s. I believe 2.4.4p3 was the last version that had all the required components functioning and it's hard to recommend anyone runs that now.

Steve

Thanks for your help @johnpoz + @stephenw10. Netgate TAC sorted everything out very quickly.

The 'Free' space there is in the pool. It will be used as required. The pool size there is shown as 7G which is likely the formatted size from the 8G eMMC once swap and boot are removed.

Check the ZFS Boot Environments. The remaining 2G is probably there as snapshots.

@everyone thanks M8 will try tonight

@stephenw10 Sophos Connect clients use 3 service strongSwan, OpenVPN and Sophos Connect to allow the configuration of both SSL VPN and IPSec. Our staff use both depending on usage however after seeing the logs it looked evident the culprit was the user plugging into the voIP phone port. The rules are very strict as to what vlans can do what.

@stephenw10

Well, that's a surprise, a good surprise actually !

Thanks for the quick answer

If you are on something older than 23.01 (e.g. 22.xx), you have to upgrade to 23.01 first, then you can go to 23.05.

If you are already on 23.01 and can't get to 23.05, then there may be a problem.

@mpcjames fair enough. Your situation is probably different from mine as I'm a homelabber who has an out-of warranty router. For me, the option would be to buy a new device which isn't in the budget anyway.

@reynold Yes, they're auto-sensing.

@cable_label Ok, so you didn't submit a ticket earlier when suggested -- I was asking what the ticket was for the previous TAC interaction. Follow the instructions I provided on the ticket response so we can work to get to the bottom of the issue you are experiencing.

@RobbieTT said in System Tunables on Netgate Hardware - Not Active?:

hope you get upgraded to FTTH in the near future!

Me too but it doesn't look like it will happen any time soon. 🙄

@stephenw10 Relevant messages were off the screen by the time I looked and nothing jumped out in the processes. I hooked up a console to grab logs and it was in single user mode. Odd. I rebooted and sure enough everything came back like before (all services) and the blue LED is back in the normal booted state.

I’ll keep an eye on it to see if it happens again.

It's a shame, the "beep" was interesting for various reasons.

Thanks for your reply ;-)

@stephenw10,

I think that captures it very nicely!

Phizix

P.S. I actually own an SG-3100 which I have not used much as I switched to SG-5100, and I copped another SG-5100 on eBay for a very good price as a backup. 🙄

@Gertjan

I do have that ticked.

I have connected my switch the firewall. And when assigned all to the port I can access the net, however when I assign one of the VLANS i do not have access to the net. I only have one firewall rule to allow all traffic. Is there something I could have done wrong when creating the VLANS or is the problem in the switch setup?

I have no specific recommendation here but the PSU in the 1541 is pretty standard AFAIK.

Steve

It probably failed to upgrade completely. I'd guess you're running a mismatched kernel and world.

Try option 8 to drop to the CLI, that usually works in that situation. Reboot from there but just entering 'reboot' and check for errors at boot on the console.

You may need to reinstall if it can't be recovered so do you have a backup of the config?

Steve