@m7infratec I actually just went through it so I know it's frustrating. But per other posts Netgate can't seem to replicate it, and obviously no one encountering it had installed the beta/RC. At least recovery isn't too bad, just need the image file and a 5GB+ USB stick.

@mael Thank you for responding. I see this has the i225 chipset, but is only a single port. Now that I know SFP+ on a PCIe card will support copper, I would likely go with that nic.

But then I really need to have my head examined for even considering paying an extra 50 bucks a month or $600 per year above 1 gig for a synchronous 2 gig connection when I rarely come close to saturating the 1 gig I am blessed to have. It would be wasted cash much better spent on a backup modest speed cable wan.

@aram535 said in Moving from SG-1100 to SG-3100:

I'm not planning on using the switch port of the 3100 so that shouldn't be a problem

Just WAN and OPT? Hmm, interesting. That should work, but the switch config might still import. There is however a "Preserve Switch Configuration" checkbox to keep the 3100 switch config. The goal would be to remove the VLANs on the 1100's ports though, not really sure if that would but I'd expect Netgate would convert it for you. I suppose another option would be to restore sections of the configuration one at a time.

@octothorpandrew This is the exact configuration I want to run, did you ever resolve the issue of not obtaining an IP?

If availability is more important to you than throughput you might consider having something like a pair of always up OpenVPN tunnels with one server on each WAN.
Depending on how the connections are used you could failover/loadbalance the gateways or use some dynamic routing across them.

You could do the same with Route base IPSec (VTI). Or Wireguard for that matter.

@stephenw10 Ah mine was on a 3100, good to know. I just restored so no big deal.

Connect to the console to see what's happening:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-2100/connect-to-console.html

Open a support ticket if you need to recover the install:
https://www.netgate.com/tac-support-request

Steve

@stephenw10 Not really. It's only 1,5GB out of 93GB used. I think doing a clean install of 23.01 is the best way to go.

@drolin said in Recommend Appliance:

So I could get a switch with a 5Gbps copper port, and an SFP+ cage. That would end up taking one of my public IPs (not a big deal) as I don't know of any switches with that capability that aren't managed.

Don't assign a public IP to your switch, VLAN that to your management VLAN and just pass the traffic.

@netboy Worked!

As you pointed out I selected Enable (NAT + Proxy)

Thanks again

@stephenw10 Thank you so much.
I will request my ISP to provision it tomorrow.

@stephenw10 you described that limitation much better than I did. Thanks for clarifying for other viewers of the post.

Sorry for the delay...I'm trying to rethink how I've approached the network config. In the past, I know I knew how to do these things (hopefully the right way) but I've lost my mental notes. I think I'm going to greenfield this bad boy and cut over to ix1 for LAN, leaving eth1 as WAN, then drop the vLANs on ix1 as needed.

Time to hit the books and make sure I'm not missing details. As always, I really appreciate everything y'all do, both from a device standpoint and your support of the community.

I'm curious, did you create one or more VLAN on the LAN interface you did the speed test, because I get about the same speed ( 840 Mbits ) with 2 ou 3 VLAN, without VLAN it get full speed ? I've about the same packages installed (Avahi, pfBlocker) but on 6100

@stephenw10 Ok great. I can forget about this one then!

Yup, I would certainly do a full reinstall.

@mclaborn you can since it is a switch underneath. See
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/sg-1100/configuring-the-switch-ports.html

Thanks for the comments guys, it turns out we had a bad image and some carp issues.
After a rebuild with a fresh image, things are working ok now

Mmm, almost all the reports seem to be from Windows users.

I've run TBs through test devices here and seen nothing. But I'd be happy to test something specific still if we find a report.

Steve

Hmm, well it would be good to see example of those errors.

Could be any number of things but the fact it seems to vary randomly makes me think it's some resource being assigned with some variation at boot.
Not sure what you could do about that. Usually the sort of thing that a BIOS update might fix.

Steve

If you need 2Gbps symmetric, 4Gbps total, I would consider the 8200.