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      nasos.liagos
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      Last week I bought a used Gateprotect GPO-100 with latest pfsense installed, just for experimenting for now.

      I set up two dsl lines in eth0 and eth2 and local lan in eth1. Device was listening to 192.168.1.1 and I just changed the IP to 192.168.1.99 and set up dhcp server with correct IPs. I played around and everything was working well, since I decided to call it a day. Accidentally instead of normal shut down, I plugged it out from power.

      Next day I tried to connect, nothing was happening. No reply and no incoming traffic from the device to my local card. I tried to connect directly my pc to the device but nothing happened.

      Since the device is actually a mini pc with a linux distribution, I suppose pressing the factory-default button will not do any good.

      So how could I access it and see what is going on, or even 'reformat' it with pfsense? I suppose I need a console to USB/Serial cable?

      Thank you!

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Yes, if it doesn't boot fully you will need to look at the console to see where it's failing and try to correct that. Or re-install.
        If you can see it's boot-looping, perhaps it beeps or the LEDs change when it reboots, it probably has filesystem damage and you can correct that using fsck from single user mode.

        Steve

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          nasos.liagos
          last edited by

          I was afraid that you would say that. Do I have to buy a console (ethernet) to usb cable or is there another way to use the console mode?

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            I have no idea what consoles are on that device but from your description it sounds like there is an RJ-45 serial console port. Note that is not Ethernet.
            It might have a VGA console too. Possible via an internal header. You would still need an adapter of some type for that.
            Do you have anything with a serial port? You could conceivably make a console cable using an old Ethernet patch directly.

            Buying a USB to serial adapter and an RJ-45 console cable is the correct way to do this though.

            You might be able to remove the boot drive and re-install it in something else depending on what it is and what you have available.

            Steve

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