I built a mini PC box a few years ago and have been very happy. It has 4GB and an SSD with some kind of Atom CPU(I think 4-core). It handles everything I have ever thrown at it and more. I recently bought an SG-1100 to use for another purpose and it's a far slower and the 1GB of RAM has limited some of the pfblockerNG configurations. I do like the SG-1100. It's cheap and basic. No hardware config.

No. It will pass it but not generate it.

Yes, we do actually have an internal bug report open for this but since it doesn't really impact anything it's pretty low priority. But it is recorded. Steve

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/sg-1000/faq.html Login and open a support ticket to request access to the factory installer image: pfSense-netgate-SG-1000-recover-2.4.4-RELEASE-p3-armv6.img.gz pls do not be frightened there is no need to pay for the support to open a ticket and ask for the factory installer image

File System Check (fsck) fixed the issue. We hand-edited the .XML and it imported and updated perfectly. Now backed-up and happy customer. Thanks for your help!

They don't want people just signing up willy nilly for support accounts ;) heheeh

Until you see thr WAN switch port show a link you have no upstream connectivity. The wall jack you are testing may just be disconnected from what we are seeing right now. Steve

I didn't look into eMMC inside my SG-3100. I'm not sure if it has level wearing or not. But in general, if I only use less than 20% space and streams the log file to other place, I bet it can last for very long. Let's do an experiment. We will see who will last longer 5 years from now.

Yes, you can assign only one not-tagged vlan on switch port. I suggest you need one non-tagged - default vlan, and all other vlans can be only tagged on same interface.

You were not able to recover the config during the install? It must have been a significantly damaged file system if so. Steve

I concur it's a Safari thing, if you click on the tile you don't "Read Now" message. It works fine in Firefox. [image: 1565771280517-screenshot-2019-08-14-at-09.27.43.png]

@RobC said in SG-3100 - normal running temperatures?: Another vendor put in a store music system and slid their amplifier in under our SG-3100. Effectively putting us on a hot plate. That's just wonderful.

No harm since you repaired the file system. These little Netgate appliances are still PCs at heart, so you have to shutdown them down gracefully even though they do sort of resemble a network switch. They are actively writing to the disk even if it is solid-state, unlike say a typical firmware-based switch which just reads from a ROM of some type.

Backup the config file from Diagnostics > Backup/Restore. Restore it back into the firewall once it's booting from m.2. It is also possible to install the config automatically from the USB installer: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/automatically-restore-during-install.html Which of those you'd use depends on what you're installing into. Steve

many thanks for the information

random != urandom random device will only return random bytes within the estimated number of bits of noise in the entropy pool. when the entropy pool is empty, reads from /dev/random will block until additional environmental noise is gathered urandom device will not block waiting for more entropy. When you need random data fast, you should use /dev/urandom For cryptographic purposes you should use /dev/random kiokoman@nanto:~$ dd if=/dev/random of=/tmp/speedtest bs=1024 count=100000 dd: warning: partial read (115 bytes); suggest iflag=fullblock 0+100000 record in 0+100000 record out 8194031 bytes (8,2 MB, 7,8 MiB) copied, 8,15628 s, 1,0 MB/s kiokoman@nanto:~$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/speedtest bs=1024 count=100000 100000+0 record in 100000+0 record out 102400000 bytes (102 MB, 98 MiB) copied, 1,88982 s, 54,2 MB/s

Ah, good to hear.

Connect LAN-to-LAN on the 7100s (Like ETH3 - ETH3) Connect a workstation to another LAN port on either of the firewalls (ETH4 to ETH8). Does your problem go away? If so, it's the Dell switch.

Yes that's expected unfortunately. The interface to query the switch port status is relatively slow, if you have that widget on the dashboard it will introduce a delay. Steve