Netgate 2100 Combo WAN Port

twillkickers

On the Netgate 2100 firewall, do I need to power cycle to switch from using the Ethernet WAN port to the SFP port? Or should I be able to pull out the ethernet cable and hot plug an SFP module connected to a fiber line? Does the firewall automatically switch over to the SFP port or do I have to change something in settings? Thanks!

rcoleman-netgate

@twillkickers I can't state with 100% certainty but I suspect it requires a reboot.

stephenw10

You can do it without a reboot:

[22.09-DEVELOPMENT][root@2100-2.stevew.lan]/root: ifconfig mvneta0
mvneta0: flags=8a43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        description: WAN
        options=800bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
        ether 00:e0:ed:b6:13:59
        inet6 fe80::2e0:edff:feb6:1359%mvneta0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        inet 172.21.16.220 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.21.16.255
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseSX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
[22.09-DEVELOPMENT][root@2100-2.stevew.lan]/root: ifconfig mvneta0
mvneta0: flags=8a43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        description: WAN
        options=800bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
        ether 00:e0:ed:b6:13:59
        inet6 fe80::2e0:edff:feb6:1359%mvneta0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        inet 172.21.16.220 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.21.16.255
        media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
        status: no carrier
        nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
[22.09-DEVELOPMENT][root@2100-2.stevew.lan]/root: ifconfig mvneta0
mvneta0: flags=8a43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        description: WAN
        options=800bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
        ether 00:e0:ed:b6:13:59
        inet6 fe80::2e0:edff:feb6:1359%mvneta0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
[22.09-DEVELOPMENT][root@2100-2.stevew.lan]/root: ifconfig mvneta0
mvneta0: flags=8a43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        description: WAN
        options=800bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
        ether 00:e0:ed:b6:13:59
        inet6 fe80::2e0:edff:feb6:1359%mvneta0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        inet 172.21.16.220 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.21.16.255
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

Steve