@beard You just download pfsense and install it from a USB stick. You then have pfsense, just as you would with Netgate gear. There's no need for any boot command. Just turn it on and go. When you install from the USB stick, press F11 to cause it to boot from it. Also, you can use the Del key to get into the BIOS, where you may want to change the power restore setting. The choices are off, on and previous state. Since mine is on a UPS, with APCUSD running, I picked on. There are different sources for the Qotom. I got mine from AliExpress and it was shipped from Hong Kong. It's also available under other names. It's also cheaper than the SG-3100, but provides better performance.

@jimp said in SG-3100 LAGG/LACP with Switch: LAGG on the SG-3100 switch with 2.4.4, but at the moment the only supported mode is Load Balance, not LACP This is quite a old Topic - is that still the case even with the latests 21.02?

@naalpv too bad, it's gone ;-)

@stephenw10 tldr: better, but im not convinced it is update related. since loading 21.02 on Feb 19 I have had 119 occurrences of packet loss (gathered from the Gateway log). Since loading 21.02-p1 I have only had 4. Feb 21-23 were not as severe as Feb 19/20. I am still inclined to pin this on my ISP, but things are better for now.

I too am interested to hear from specialists on this topic.

Thanks for the suggestions, always appreciated. I'll pass those to the people making those decisions. Over the years everything has been considered. There's always a compromise to be made. Steve

Yes that's just a note indicating these are free packages: Add optional packages such as Snort or Suricata for IDS/IPS and network security monitoring, Squid for optimized content delivery and SquidGuard for anti-spam/anti-phishing and URL filtering.1 The 1 there should also be superscript. Thanks for noting that. Steve

What were you upgrading from? And I assume it was to 21.02p1 at this point not 2.4.5? Steve

It's not that. It looks like a missing uboot env in that case. On the SG-1100 that does not prevent it booting and running normally. However if you open a ticket with us we can get that fixed for you. Steve

@alpharulez said in 21.02 Sudden lockup: Blog post here for more details: https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-obscure-bugs-and-code-wizards.html How can I find out when the snort issue has been fixed? Thanks for the fix. You can track the Snort issue here: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/11466. This one may take several days to figure out and clear up.

@stephenw10 Again, thanks. Paighton sent everything over after I had called it a night. Downloaded what I needed this morning and have updated my restore docs with the info he sent. Over the years, I've found this the best way to get Murphy to look somewhere else to cause trouble. Rick

@stephenw10 said in SG-3100 system activity displaying wrong info: Yes, see the bug. That value is completely invalid for some reason. If you run top from the command line (NOT in the gui) top -aSH you will see the first pass produces that bogus value but all subsequent passes are correct. Because the page in the gui works by repeatedly running single passes it always appears incorrectly. Steve Thanks Steve, I'm not a programmer, so your words help me to understand what is happening under the hood. :)

@jimp 21_02_1 looks good as far as this issue is concerned. dnsbl is also syncing which wasn't occurring in the previous release 21.02

@lerriuqs Ha! It’s even easier on windows. Plug it in, set the com port in putty, and console is yours. Very glad your experience with netgate has been the same as I’ve experienced on multiple occasions. Happy bit pushing!

I see what you mean @stephenw10 and @pete35 . I've just reduced the DHCP range from 10.x.5.1 to 10.x.15.255 for all the VLANs. That will give me plenty of addresses without bloating the file. The dhcpd.leases file immediately reduced its size to a more manageable 900KB, I'll keep monitoring it in the next days to see if it stays the same or keeps growing. I'll update the thread. Thank you all for your precious support. Gab

@jimp I only had what was configured OOTB for 21.02. However, I have now downgraded to 2.4.5p1 -- so will have to leave this topic for another day.

I use double the defaults, so 80 and 120MB, and have not seen any issues. Steve

@lnguyen I actually have two here from different vendors I tried. One's coded for Cisco and the other's coded for Intel. This directive was added to the boot loader config file: hw.ix.unsupported_sfp="1" After rebooting, when I slide either SFP module into the SFP+ cage, I get an unsupported module error from the kernel. ix0: Unsupported SFP+ module type was detected. I remember seeing on the Supermicro documentation that these SFP+ ports are not multimode and only support SFP+ modules.

@bigsy said in My SG-1100 is constantly restarting: I'm not sure if this option was there previously It wasn't, that's new in 21.02. Previously you had to escape to the loader prompt and manually boot into single user mode. Steve

@akuma1x Thank you so much