You could try adding a boot delay to the 1100 so the NUC has finished booting before it starts. Though if it sends an escape sequence that can interrupt the boot that could cause a problem at any time. The # implies the root prompt which is an odd place to end up. The 1100 logs everything once the kernel starts but it doesn't log input at the console.

@keyser Fair enough. I already have a managed switch, but took it down recently. I currently have everything sitting atop my dryer. I am trying to reduce clutter. However, construction is coming soon and I will soon have a dedicated area for my Proxmox servers and this network equipment. I currently have an 1100 setup, a single OpenWRT router, and a POE switch up on the dryer now. The one renter just wants WiFi, no cables, so I can accommodate that with the OpenWRT router and vLANs. It's a far cry better than 2 OpenWRT routers, a managed switch, a PoE switch, and a Netgate 1100. My 1 bother is in an ADU just outside the house, so he has a separate OpenWRT router in bridge mode, connected to the LAN interface via a 100' Ethernet cable. Probably more than anyone wanted to know, but Ok. Gotta go now.

I know this thread is old, but it helped me with my WAN uplink speed negotiation issue I experienced after updating my 2100 to 24.11. Sometimes the obvious is the easy solution. After the 24.11 update, my WAN was set to 100BaseT. I spent at least an hour trying to figure this out, rebooting everything under the sun. Then I came across this thread, swapped out my cable, and BOOM! back to 1000BaseT.

Possibly, if it's actually physically broken.

Yes, just restore the full config file and it will pull in any required packages.

@marcg I've got that one in my cart. Waiting for the total to reach free shipping.

@jlbeebe +1. The plastic on the top half of the casing does not permit many micro USB cables to be fully inserted into the socket on the board.

@stephenw10 Yes, we did get it directly from Netgate. It came with the fan, but no directions, so I was trying to fit the fan onto the card itself. I opened a TAC ticket earlier and got the PDF, so that definitely helps. I would recommend adding those instructions to the official manual, it would have made my life a lot easier.

@Jeffx123 said in SG-1100 boot fails after power outage and can't reach network for reinstall: Apparently there are questions as to how long a usb drive will survive the write load Yup. I would install UFS and enable RAM disks to avoid that problem. Then again USB drives are cheap.

@stephenw10 said in SG-2220 finally got the bug: It would have been 2014. Might have been some in 2013. No worries.. I was just curious.. Decent little box.. I shall miss it. ;)

@SteveITS Thank you. Seems like the issue has been sorted.!!!

@pmwqld said in Netgate 4100 Failes to boot after storm: @mcury Do you have a make/model of them? iClamper is a company with a great reputation in Brazil. We don't have a great infrastructure, so everyone uses it around here. I have customers with farms, and if I don't use those there, especially there, every now and then lightning burns equipment. It has a varistor component built in, it is like a little sponge or pillow that can protect you even if you don't have proper power grounding. If you don't find it in your location, search for good companies with good reputation. Out of my head, I probably bought more than a hundred of these in the past 5 years or so.. This is a guy testing it, video is in Portuguese, but you can generate subtitles or perhaps just watch it without audio to see how it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYoEb0iCNnk

As as test set the 1100 itself to use some external DNS server and recheck.

@Lugie said in Netgate 2100 PPPoE Throughput: From what I see on other forums, people with fibre connections just don't use limiters anymore. If you have a symmetrical (or very close to symmetrical) connection, then IMHO "buffer bloat" is kind of a solution searching for a problem. It was much more of an actual issue with highly asymmetrical connections such as the early DSL technology. It can also still be an issue with cable ISPs that offer say Gig download speeds but maybe only a few tens of megabits/sec upload speeds. For example, before my symmetrical Gigabit fiber connection I had 1 Gig down and 50 megabits/sec up from a local cable ISP. The actual speed tests wound up averaging about 800 or so down and 49-51 up. That was an asymmetrical connection. Not saying Limiters don't have their place in certain specialized applications, but for most home users with a symmetrical connection (where download and upload speeds are the same), they are not needed.

Yes, the Netgate 4200 supports IIMB and can help with WireGuard, more details here: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/hardware/cryptographic-accelerators.html

@Koent The 4200 does not have a SFP/SFP+/SFP28 port, so no, it cannot possibly be made to work with the 4200. You will need it’s older sibling - The 4100 - or it’s bigger brother - the 6100 - so get such a port. It will likely work just fine in those if it works in ubiguity or mikrotik. Generally most SFPs slot compatible modules works in my experience.

Add me to the list of successful chip-pullers. SG-5100 would not boot at all, no boot menu. I pried the eMMC chip off the board and it boots right up now. Installed a M.2 drive while I was in there, just installed pfSense to it and restored my config. This thing is hopefully back in service for a bunch more years.

The default code does not. You could write a custom form that included an email address as a mandatory field but it would not be confirmed. You would also have to parse the logs to recover those addresses or include some code to export them.

@dmad Thanks very much for the 2 links ! I am going to check them now ...