Did you test some other client device behind the switch pulling a lease? How that differs from the switch as a client? Bizarre. Hard to see what might be different there. One possible test you could do would,be to assign mvneta0 as the LAN on the 2100 to remove the on-board switch. That's quite involved though.

Thank you patient0, I am humbled, and very grateful to have been taken to school today. Thanks a bunch! thumper23

@SteveITS Thanks - each port "being its own network" is a helpful bit of knowledge. I have a lot of learning to do so I'll move on from here, probably start a new post with more questions at some point. Appreciate your insight and time!

No me either but I'd quite like to find out! Are you able to make the failing config available to us to check?

@stephenw10 I've got a gazillion used m.2 sata drives, I'm sure one of them will work. :) Thanks!

It's a pretty standard socket. 2.5x5.5 barrel plug I believe. The only unusual thing is that it's locking.

@stephenw10 just upgraded my 6100 MAX to 24.11 and this has also appeared in my SMART widget. Have set to ignored but dont remember this ever appearing before the upgrade.

@Gertjan Sorry I wasn't super clear in my sentence but I was simply mentioning that no IP address was given and I cannot access the console so I was a bit dead in the water. I was able to use a third Micro-B cable which worked and I can see that the 1100 is not booting fully. I am in midst of trying to reinstall pfSense on the device but the first attempt via a flashed USB using etcher left me with a sub child process failed during the installation of packages. I'm trying a different USB thumb drive and will report back. @stephenw10 Yes that seemed to be the problem; I tried a third Micro-B cable and it worked. Sort of silly!

@coxhaus I would love to given the positive experience I have had with the CISCO SG200 switches. I would like to upgrade to at least 2.5G and everything I can find in CISCO products are overkill for my needs, even staying at L2.

@Nellies yeah tac is normally johhny on the spot.. I have gotten link for download in the past in couple of minutes, think longest was like 20 minutes and that was right when a version dropped and you know they had to have been swamped with tickets. So your 3100 is back in business?

@CatSpecial202 I never got it to boot but basically Netgate support just said to send it back after I reported the blank console and the power button behaviour. Did you have a 4200 or a 4200 MAX?

There isn't at the moment The 4100/6100 kit will not fit. The 4200 doesn't have the same mounting holes.

Thanks for pulling this together again, @SteveITS. Other than the use of a RAM disk, all of this has been implemented here from the start.

Aha, nice result!

@stephenw10 thanks sent in a email to sales. Might be able to do without the actually bracket. Might be able to fabricate my own bracket.

@michael2z said in Upgrading a Netgate 5100: Has anyone succeeded in upgrading a Netgate 5100 to the latest pfsense version. Any do's and don't's appreciated. I have a Netgate SG-5100 device. I maintain it on the most recent pfSense Plus versions as they are released, so I'm never more than 1 version behind. I just click the Upgrade button and let it go. I have no optional packages installed. Generally takes about 5 - 7 minutes if I recall for an upgrade.

You would need something in between to act as a USB host and bridge the two USB-serial connections. Like a RasPi perhaps. But if you're doing that you might as well just use the RasPi as a terminal server.

@stephenw10 My only thinking is you don't want to bridge any pfsense interfaces, use layer 3 routing in a larger network between interfaces. Layer 2 has a lot of baggage. The same if you are using slow communication lines. Route over them, layer 3 instead of bridging them, layer 2. At least it was that way 20 years ago with a network of 4000 Windows clients. I would think the principles would still apply for the fastest speeds on large networks.