SG-3100

[craigpf]

Hi, I'm unsuccessfully trying to get into Netgate SG-3100.  I'm clearly doing something stupid, just not sure what.  Here's sequence of events:

• Nothing connected to Netgate SG-3100.  Cycle power, wait for diamond LED to pulse
• Hold reset button 10 seconds, wait for diamond LED to pulse
• PC configured for DHCP
• Connect PC to Netgate port LAN 1 with known good cable
      * ipconfig shows IP address assigned to PC as 169.254.8.53
      * Arp -a shows nothing for Netgate, only
          * 169.254.255.255, and
          * Local addresses (224.0.0.x, etc)
• Change PC IP address to static 192.169.1.37, via control panel/properties
      * No change to arp table, no connection to netgate
      * Change PC back to DHCP
• Change to Netgate port LAN2
      * No change

[Derelict]

Please connect the serial console and see what is shown there:

https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/sg-3100/connect-to-console.html

[craigpf]

Thank you very much Derelict.  That worked perfectly and was also THE most polite RTFM ever.  Much appreciated.

[Derelict]

So you got it worked out? What was it?

[craigpf]

Yep, all good.  Not sure what the original problem source was, but am sure that once I went in via console, reset and reconfigured, it was receptive and behaved as expected.  Thx for the follow up!