@ppmax For 1 gig go for the 4100 at least. I'm at a 6100 with multi WAN 1 gig and while using Suricata that unit hits 100% CPU.

"Although not specifically designed for it, it fits and works great."

I used the dimensions of the device to locate something that worked.

@stephenw10 I got the power supply back in the unit and the cables back where they should be. It wasn't fun... I would hate for the PSU to ever fail in this unit, I'd rather just buy a whole other system.. System boots, all is fine.. I think...

I notice now my Ventoy drive will no longer boot via UEFI.. It just shows BIOS only.. I think this was after I did a BIOS update, I did also factory reset the BIOS settings. Ventoy booted before via UEFI, now it don't like it. Was gonna boot my Ventoy drive and run Memtest86 Pro against the RAM, cuz I upgraded the RAM. Looks like I'll have to write memtest to a flash drive the old school way. This is my first Supermicro server, and I'm not impressed.. I'll definitely stick with Dell PowerEdges. Of course pop my Ventoy drive into any other system, including other servers.. boots via UEFI with no issues.

The 10G NICs are still randomly blinking of course. I'm going to file a ticket with Supermicro about it. Right now I'm fixing all the kinks with the system. Seems anything I try to do is just biting me in the rear. This is supposed to be a server but acts more like a finicky DIY system.

@rcoleman-netgate It's the splash screen, it's so fast my camera could barely focus on it.

It's actually correct, but I can see why it's misleading cuz it flashes so fast you can't read it.
Netgate XG-1541 BIOS Splash Screen

TAB: Display BIOS POST Message

looks to be what it says.

@zatco Honestly if you are using ZFS on the boot drive, I'd just make the boot drive larger and use it. Depending how your boot drives are configured and if you have autoexpand enabled, you could increase the storage size of the pool. Or just re-install pfSense on the larger drive.

@gertjan said in Don't have CONSOLE cable, how do i connect to SG-3100...Three LEDs blinking during bootup:

Even if the system has been marked clean, do have a look at this video :
How to Run a pfSense Software File System Check

This is the way.

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/filesystem-check.html

@steveits
I decided to just reenter my configurations. It was easier since I could copy and paste from the backup I had. Firewall has been up and stable for the past couple of days since the factory reset. Thanks for your help.

@dr-tardis https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/sg-2220/m-2-sata-installation.html

Thanks for the 2nd and 3rd set of eyes. I got the courage to test this out today and it works fine. It's now production.
Much appreciated!

@stephenw10 said in 2100 firmware upgrade?:

The 'BIOS' used by the 2100 is uboot. That can be upgraded at the same time a pfSense upgrade is run if it's required. However at this time there have been no uboot updates for the 2100. Nothing is required.

Steve

Perfect, thanks for that. Always good to find out, felt like I missed that at first :)

@froglevelmc Go to: https://www.netgate.com/tac-support-request
Open a Ticket with TAC and request the firmware.

Ok, that's significantly more powerful that the 6100 so I'd expect it to take longer there with the same ruleset.

Steve

The 7100 ix SFP+ ports do not support link speed negotiation. If you use a module that is dual-speed capable it must be set at 1G to link at 1G.

If the module is shown and data from it can be read by the NIC then as long as it's seeing level from the remote side it may be possible to make it work.

Steve

I can't speak for Netgate directly on this, I wasn't involved in that decision.

Personally I prefer Intel because you're not paying for features that pfSense can't use. Both in money and power consumption/heat. In FreeNAS that's different. I imagine they might well use the TCP offloading the Chelsio NICs offer. Though I've never looked into it.

More cooling never hurts!

Steve

@rainbowdash This sensor is not reading any actual temperatures and will be ignored in future releases of pfSense Plus.

You can safely ignore its reading for the time being.

You should be able to remove those log files from the console there and that will free enough space to allow it to boot normally.

Yes, if you install Suricata you must enable log rotation and I always set small logs sizes and set a total log folder size.
Both the 2100 MAX and BASE will run Suricata though I would be very careful about running on a BASE model because the logging increases drive writes to the eMMC significantly.

Steve

@benhurharrison Open a ticket at https://go.netgate.com/ and request a fresh install image for your 1100. Reimage the device, then restore your config and you should be good to go.

No. The rules reference the internal names in the config (wan, lan, opt1, opt2 etc) so if you reassign opt2 from igb0 to ix1 the rules will follow it.

Steve

@stephenw10 Perfect, thanks for all the info, helps a ton.

We aren't really having issues with performance per-se, just was seeing if I could find anything that would speed it up, but sounds like a CPIC card probably wouldn't make a huge difference since we aren't even close to saturating the full 2 gigabits in the first place.

Thanks again!