@provels yes LOL

Not really I'm afraid. I use Three because it's literally free until I actually need to use it, which is hardly ever. They give you 200MB per month and with tuning that's enough for gateway monitoring and occasional testing. I will say that if speed is a big consideration for you you should get an external 4G modem device like a Netgear LB2120. You can get actual LTE speeds from that where as the driver limitations in FreeBSD mean you won't ever see more than 42Mbps from the EM7305. I usually see something ~20Mbps here. Steve

@bigsy Thank you so much! It's been a very busy day here, and I appreciate the link!

Finally got a support account set up and requested the firmware. Hopefully this will resolve the issue. After this, I'm considering obtaining a backup device so I always have a spare, ready to go.

@stephenw10 Thanks for the check in. I couldn’t find that issue about quick blue flashing lights as a specific boot issue when I had the incident. I googled away but I may have missed it in the documentation. For starters something likes this guide https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&solutionid=sk123865&t=1613789835245 To be able to clearly identify an issue from the lights in the front panel. Being able to control whether the lights can show and of course their brightness (maybe a timer too) please.

This is likely the known issue we are working to resolve currently: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/161098/pfsense-plus-and-sg-3100 Steve

My system has been upgraded succesfully. 10 minute job. No issues.

I'm not aware of anything that shows that specifically. I'll pass that request on, see if we can get something up. Steve

Run kldstat to check the module is loaded. We are aware he dashboard doesn't report it yet. A fix for that is incoming. You won't see much advantage with OpenVPN it accelerates IPSec more. Steve

Yes, it only really does anything useful for IPSec currently. Enable it in Sys > Adv > Misc then set IPSec to use one of the supported ciphers. https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=safexcel Steve

@stephenw10 - Thanks for the feedback.

No joy... Had to install 2.4.5p1 from scratch. Now updating to 21.02, no packages installed, only vlans and interfaces configured.

@teamits @tkroeger - thanks guys you are correct! Interesting to have a dedicated LED for software updates. Peter

Nice.

@jwj totally agree. In the meantime I was able to get the app to work with a couple firewall rules so I can limp by for now. Appreciate all the advice! [image: 1613360369744-screen-shot-2021-02-14-at-9.38.37-pm-resized.png]

Still in the Google cache. I that doc it says: In addition, SFP+ devices based on the Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X552 and Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X553 do not support the following features: * Speed and duplex auto-negotiation. * Wake on LAN * 1000BASE-T SFP Modules The NICs in the C3558 are X553. Steve

Thanks Stephenw10

Yes unfortunately that's probably the case. If there is no output on the console at all and the status LED does not turn green there is probably nothing we can do at this point. Steve

@stephenw10 Yep, I added dev.ix.0.advertise_speed with value of 4 to the tunables.