@STEAMENGINE said in SG-1100 restore does not succeed:
This is where after a reboot pfsense always wants to know which is the WAN port. if it is a PPPoE service (most are in UK for domestic users). If you choose 'a' for automatic pfsense says that the link is down when you plug it in. Of course if you have not yet provided a USR and PWD to pfsense for the PPPoE WAN it does not hook up. Pfsense in SG-1100 seems not to recognize the port you plugged the WAN into if it is a PPPoE service. This is a deadly loop you can't escape from.
I'm used PPPOE for years also.
Good news : your wrong, it doesn't work like that.
When pfSense boots, the WAN NIC is initialized - you can see for yourself : lights come up on both the pfSense WAN NIC, and the modem's NIC must also be up.
This is the moment when you see a "Link UP" in the dmesg log for the WAN.
The fact that PPPPoE isn't initialzied yet is not important. For pfSEnse, there is a WAN assigned interface, that's all that counts.
Check out for yourself what PPPoE is : it's a (point to point) Protocol over Ethernet. When PPPoE is started, the Ethernet is and must be already up.
So, for pfSense the WAN interface is UP.
If pfSense stops at the end of the boot, to ask to you to assign a WAN, this means the other side isn't UP yet -> your modem ! Solution : boot modem first, have it stabilize, and start the pfSense. This is a know situation and has been seen before. Especially if you have a uncontrolled power down and power up situation.
Normally, xDSL modmes are dumb devices, and start up pretty quickly, faster as pfSense.
You could also have a bas cable : test with another cable.
Again, see the dmesg log for whatever messages related to the WAN NIC driver.
It should show "Link UP" for all NIC's connected at the end of the log.
Btw : I always used and use today an AMD64 version - PPPoE isn't possible anymore for me.