Does it appear in Advanced > SDIO Config ? I wonder if it's trying to detect and setup the connection there still. I don't expect it to appear in that SATA config section, it doesn't on the one I have here either. It's not a SATA device. Though I note you don't appear to have the enable/disable option there at all. Steve

Toggling the repo should work. It may not have refreshed the pkg if you did it too quickly. Any device that is running a development snapshot and pulled the bad repo details at that time will need to be corrected manually. Steve

@teratronic With headless devices (no screen keyboard), I advise you to look and do what is proposed here : How to Run a pfSense Software File System Check This one Upgrading pfSense Software contains also useful information. Both are Netgate video's. These guys know what they talk about : they created the devices. What we all do wrong, just to gain several minutes, and loosing hours afterwards as a result : Before thinking of upgrading : Check free disk space. Do so using console or SSH access. Check if, during the boot cycle, there are no mount errors (see first video). Check that you have a local (USB) copy of the current config.xml. Check that you have a copy of the current version of pfSense ready on a USB. Because you have multiple devices, you can easily test faulty PSU's. Bit be careful : bas PSU's can do harm to the disk : not physical, but on a written 'bit' level. On the next boot, your device refuses to boot ... For any pfSense, a good PSU is import. As important as a good UPS. An UPS is not mandatory, an UPS is only important if your internet connection is important to you.

Yes, connect to the console and see where it's rebooting: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-2100/connect-to-console.html You can probably escape the boot loop. Styeve

You can tell if it's even POSTing correctly by the fan speed. The fans come on a full speed and remain there if Coreboot is not running to set the controller. If will do that if, for example, the RAM size is changed and it needs to retrain. During that time the fans are loud and there is nothing on the console, it can take ~5min. Have you ever connected to the serial console in the past on that XG-7100? You can return it for diagnostics at cost. You should open a ticket with us here: https://go.netgate.com/ Steve

Ok, thanks for the clarification @stephenw10

@hax2021 said in SG-1000 issues pfSense 2.4.0-BETA: Card did not respond to voltage select! You saw https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/sg-1000/faq.html ? If possible, check the SSD. Contact support.

@clazmania Well, the ultimate fix was to re-image and restore the config...problem solved. Just in case anyone else has a similar issue.

@deuce I sent mine back under warranty and they reflashed the firmware and did some other things to it. They saw exactly what I had been experiencing (mine would continually restart during the reboot, meaning it never even got to the point of running).

Is it exactly 1 hour? The black diamond LED flashing fast indicates it's booting. So the first thing I would be doing is checking the logs to see any any cause for a reboot has been recorded. If nothing is there I would try hooking up the serial console and wait for it to next happen. The review the console log. Something might be shown there that the system is unable to log to the filesystem. If it's already been re-installed though you should open a ticket with us about this. Steve

@bmeeks Thanks Thanks... So update. Suricata and pfBlockNG has been disabled. pfBlockerNG I might re-enable, by all the advise here, unlikely to enable Suricata again. And it seems neither might have been the root cause, that it seems was a damaged modem, Had the local Telco guy check the line, he came back, line's 100% but when he does test from his side against my modem it refuses to sync above 8Mbps... so the last bit of yesterday was to pull a old modem out of a box, configure it as per my network, where I was previously maxing out at 3/5-4Mbps I'm now getting 7-8 Mbps... so hoping he will enable my line for faster this morning and we will then get even better ... I'm so waiting for the 200-300 Mbps fiber in January. Will advise later when this has been done and what I found. So far, thanks for comments. G

@steveits Thanks for the quick reply!

You may well be able to script something. Or modify one of the existing scripts. It would be unsupported though. You would have to take care at firmware upgrade to ensure the scripts were replaced etc. Steve

The ports on the 6100 are completely independent. The only way to make them work the way you describe is via bridging.

@nikolaosinlight Ok, I might have interrupted the crash dump gathering. Thank you.

Yeah, I used a Draytek V120 with ADSL for years. It just worked. When my last Huawei HG612 expires I might have to go to the V130. Unless FTTP has arrived by then. Steve

pfSense is designed to be a web configured firewall. It's pretty much the reason it exists! You could block access to the webgui on every interface and just use links at the console directly: [image: 1637421294924-screenshot-from-2021-11-20-15-11-02.png] It's pretty inconvenient though for the security it gets you. At some point int the future this might become a more practical option as we move functionality out of the front end. Steve

@stephenw10 thanks Stephen, my idea is just to have a 100% safe laptop/PC only to access the router. I don't think you need to be connected to the net to login/configure the router(?) I'm also looking at Linux & physically removing the wifi/bluetooth capabilities. Or even OpenBSD/FreeBSD OS... Thanks Tails may be going too far for me, but I will need to understand it better. Hopefully a VPN will be enough to stop them acquiring my IP. Anyhow, I think I'm started to understand enough to know that I am going to give the Netgate 6100 / PFSense a go - then add additional security measures on top. Just some last Qs, since all this networking lark requires a fair bit of knowledge, and is therefore easy to mess things up in configuration - Would I be able to get someone from your support to screenshot me the [100%] correct setup/configurations for whatever I decided to go with in terms of devices/clients and addons such as pfBlockerNG-Devel? Am I going to need a separate switch to do VLANs? Should I add Squid / ACLs for extra security? If possible, can briefly explain how ACLs will help (I can't figure it out with VLANs & whether it's necessary). Thank you very much!