Contact TAC and request the appropriate recovery image for the device:

https://www.netgate.com/tac-support-request

@bogusexception The thing I see most often is using a bad, or failing, mini-USB cable.

The 3100 uses mini-USB, the 1100/1000 use micro-USB. The requirement is that it passes data as well as power for these models.

3100 page: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/sg-3100/connect-to-console.html

@stephenw10
Hello, Thank you for this confirmation and your responsiveness to answer.
Have a good day.

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/13273

@stephenw10 Thank you for the explanation and the link to the documentation in the event it would need to be disabled. Things seem to be fine as it is. It was just something I had not seen on my SG-5100 .

Thanks again!
Bill

Yes, those can be used as a WAN also. They require some additional config to separate out for individual use but it's not hard:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-2100/switch-overview.html

Steve

@ajax0117

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/config/interface-configuration.html

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/interfaces/index.html

Hi Sir @stephenw10,

Thank you very much for helping me and answering my concerns.

@stephenw10 said in Safely Shutdown a Netgate 1100 Automatically:

Yeah, that's what I was thinking but really you want a DC-DC device for in car and I can't see anything that NUT supports.

Steve

Interesting, I suppose I can make a board that emulates a NUT end device, that could be an interesting project!

https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/abratchik/hid-compliant-ups-with-arduino-75198c
https://github.com/xm381/Raspberry-Pi-UPS
I suppose this might works

They run BlinkBoot, which is UEFI.

Thanks. We are investigating.

Steve

No it isn't. The RAM on the 4100 is on-board and there no DIMM slots.

Steve

@stephenw10 I missed that in my post earlier they are all set to trunk. I will need to rethink my Unifi setup after the firewall/switch is reconfigured. :) I do also need to redo the placing of my APs to make me wifi better and to reach everywhere in full speed. But that not for you to help me with. :)

@rcoleman-netgate thank you. I will surely order that one.

@cmccolgan said in Using a LAN port on SG-3100 for WAN interface to Frontier ONT:

In reading various posts it seems that there are ineffeciencies in using a LAN port at these speeds and I was getting a perf hit by using LAN 4 as my WAN port.

What you were probably hitting there was the shared link between the LAN4 and one of the other LAN ports if that's where you were testing from. In that config both ports are sharing a single NIC. The NIC can send and receive at 1G simultaneously so if you have a udp stream you should see very close to line rate. However for TCP tests the reply traffic moving the other way decreases the available bandwidth. When the path uses two NICs that isn't an issue. So, if you are using a LAN port as the WAN, testing from a client on OPT will likely show the same results you see using the WAN port.

Steve

Yup, open a ticket to get a reinstall image if you need it: https://www.netgate.com/tac-support-request

Connect to the serial console to see what's happening:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/sg-1100/connect-to-console.html

You may be able to recover from a filesystem error without reinstalling with console access.

Steve

@stephenw10 said in SG-1100 takes a LONG time to start up (and doesn't halt?):

@tangooversway said in pfSense takes a LONG time to start up (and doesn't halt?):

it can take 2, even 3 minutes before the green diamond LED stops blinking. (I've timed it - it really is that long.) Is it normal for an SG-1100 to completely turn on?

It can be, especially if it doesn't have a functioning WAN/ There are some processes that have to time out at boot if so.

That makes sense. When I'm working on the settings, it's hooked up directly to my iMac. While I'm doing that, I can't go through it for a good internet connection for research, so I don't connect it until I'm ready to use it. And for the main LAN, because of that delay, I've booted, waited for the green diamond, then connected it to the WAN and LAN.

@tangooversway said in pfSense takes a LONG time to start up (and doesn't halt?):

Shouldn't that diamond led turn off to show the SG-1100 is off?

No, it does not turn off at halt. The SG-1100, like other ARM devices, doesn't power down when it halts. There is no good way to turn off that LED actually at halt and turning it off before that could cause incorrect de-powering.

Okay. Same as on a Raspberry Pi. (I forgot about that issue!) Thank you for clearing that up.

The best way to see what's happening at boot and to know when it's safe to unplug is to look at the console.

Sometimes I can do that, but when I'm done in the "tech zone," where I have several servers, the ethernet switches, fiber optic couplers, and all that stuff, including my firewalls, I don't have anything with a GUI, so I can't easily check the console. (I do have a phone, but I hate using a small phone screen for web interfaces that aren't designed for mobile devices.)

Thank you!

@stephenw10 thank you for the clarification, i just migrated all my VLANs to the 10Gi ports , worked out flawlessly
ix0,ix1 => LAGG1 => LAGG1.vlanX

I have just the (3) WAN ports on the integrated switch now

I think this setup is far better utilizing the two 10Gi ports on the internal network , having
them as uplinks for the VLANs

It's hard to imagine what reseting the config does to restore the connection here. It would initially come up with WAN as DHCP and send some broadcast traffic.

I assume you have tried reconnecting the WAN cable?

Rebooting the fibre modem?

Does the gateway IP disappear from the ARP table in Diag > ARP?

Steve