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    Migrating from SG-3100 to SG-5100

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      gabacho4 Rebel Alliance @rloeb
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      @rloeb outstanding! Enjoy your 5100. I certainly enjoy mine.

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        styxl @rloeb
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        @rloeb excellent, i will give it a try

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          nva
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          A bit related question: SG-5100 and SG-7100 both have very same CPU (Atom C3558) but Netgate lists them having difference in performance: 3.66 Gbps forwarding vs 18.6 Gbps. Why is that?

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            gabacho4 Rebel Alliance @nva
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            @nva if I recall right the 7100 had one or two 10Gig sfp ports on it or something like that. You could look at the hardware specs to be sure but that's what I remember.

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              styxl
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              i am happy to report that this worked like a charm, i only had to fix a few interfaces and vlan assignments. the SG5100 is a beast of a router...

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                Draco @styxl
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                @styxl - I am about to try the same thing; did you need to hand edit the CONFIG.XML to correct the port names/vlans, or did the 5100 UI prompt you for those fixes?

                Thanks!

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                  styxl @Draco
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                  @draco no need to hand edit, you will get a prompt or you can go to the interfaces menu and edit them.

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                    Draco @styxl
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                    @styxl Thank you! You've saved me a ton of trial/error time!

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                      Draco @Draco
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                      @styxl Just to follow up -- this didn't work for me. My config has multiple VLANs, lots of rules, and depended on the Marvel switch behavior for LAN1 - LAN4 on the 3100.

                      I wound up taking on the config.xml editing after experimenting to create bridges to replicate the Marvel switch. Once I had that working, the editing wasn't too bad. It was a full day of work though.

                      Now all that remains is the testing 😲

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                        styxl @Draco
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                        @draco oooh interesting to know, i only had a simple setup with 2 Vlan's.

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                          Draco @styxl
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                          @styxl Just FYI - Plan B didn't work either. I wound up buying a D-Link smart switch and running my no-VLAN + 2 VLANs out of the LAN port, letting the switch do the rest (as others suggested in this thread).

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