@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

QAT is your best bet since you are on Plus and the hardware is capable.

The 1100 is ARM and there are no CE ARM builds of any version. Even the older versions before the "Plus" branding were still customized and referred to as "Factory" versions which were different from CE. Some of the amd64 Netgate hardware can run CE, but some require special drivers/code for certain hardware and you'd lose other hardware-specific tuning and capabilities. For example the 7100 wouldn't run CE well because it couldn't drive the integrated switch, among other things. The 6100 could run CE but you'd lose QAT support and other items tuned for that hardware (LEDs, Reset button, and so on)

@stephenw10 Thanks a lot!

Yes, you can divide up the switched ports in whatever way you want, it's managed switch. You can even use port VLAN mode to effectively couple the two internal interfaces to two Eth ports directly. That allows you to treat them as real NIC ports and see all traffic on them. But obviously only at 1G. Steve

Hitting 100% packet loss like that is unlikely to be just latency reloading the rules. Is that the system or gateway log? Is there anything else in the system log at that time? It looks more like, say, the modem rebooting. Does it have an uptime you can check? Steve

@stephenw10 VLAN is exactly what I meant, thanks! Have not had my coffee yet. Steve

The SFP adapter did the trick. The activity LED on the WAN RJ45 socket also still works. I did a factory reset and am currently restoring settings from backup.

@stephenw10, Excellent! Ticket submitted.

@bmeeks - thanks for your furthering. It makes so much sense. Thanks.

This is the procedure I use. The reset button is the upper of the two buttons on the side, the one more recessed. The reset is a two step process: Power on the device. After a few seconds, when the green circle LED changes from orange to blue, hold the reset button for 5 seconds. This 'short-press' initiates the reset. Then, after the drive has mounted, the system recognises the reset has been initiated and asks you to confirm the reset. In 22.01 this is indicated by all three LEDs turning red. Hold the reset button until all three LEDs start flashing, ~13s. The system then resets the config and reboots. Steve

The update steamlined the PXE boot options. Previously it tried to PXE boot on a number of interfaces and had to timeout on all of them. Steve

@rcoleman-netgate yeah it has something to do with the latest Windows updates. Which is always ugly. And unpredictable. And frustrating. Not a hard fix, but it is a manual fix.

Yes, the throughput on the 2100 is limited by the CPU so you will see usage proportionate the rate. You will see though that the CPU usage is not equal on both CPU cores. So the limit is reached when one core is at 100% use as each NIC has one queue. Thus the total CPU usage may not show 100% at max throughput. Steve

@stephenw10 sorry i just noticed that , thanks :) I was sure it's the link to the NIC + mounting kit -- Edit -- unfortunately none of the EU partners are shipping this product and getting it shipped from US costs more than the product itself :)

@stephenw10 Nice, will do some testing and enable that before thunder season. :) Thanks, Steve

@gdzbedfz ACS is Auto Channel Selection on the linked page https://support.eero.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000825206-What-advanced-features-do-I-lose-access-to-if-I-put-my-eeros-into-bridge-mode-

Thank you Steve, i switched from my SG-3100 and am using the modified config.xml. Now I updated to 02.02.00.00t-uc-14 and finally to 02.02.00.00t-uc-15. The appliance starts faster compared to the old firmware version.