Other use-case for SG-2100?
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My new ISP only implements MAP-E (IPoE), which is unsupported by pfsense. Hence, the SG-2100 is currently collecting dust. I am not familiar with u-boot and not even sure if pfsense can be replaced with another operative system like FreeBSD or Debian arm64?
I have a 30GB SSD M2 on the SG-2100, so would be nice if I could turn it into a server for collecting logs from the ISP router, or other use-case than a firewall.
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@B10h4z4rdX And you can't just run behind your isp device in a double nat, and or put it in bridge mode? I find it really hard to believe that the isp device provides anywhere close to the feature set that you can do with pfsense as router/firewall..
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Hmm, are you sure it doesn't support map-e? Maybe just missing some gui components....
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29468
Edit: No looks like there is no MAP interface that would be required.ARM hardware usually requires specific images built for just that device but you may find something close enough that boot. Armbian or OpenWRT perhaps.
Steve
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@stephenw10 - Thank you for suggesting openWRT and Armbian. I did have success with openWRT and MAP-E on an older router but the wifi coverage was to weak so reverted back to the router I used before. I was following the instructions here, but unable to replicate them for pfsense: https://github.com/fakemanhk/openwrt-jp-ipoe
MAP-E is not supported by pfsense according to TAC support, only TNSR Enterprise does: https://docs.netgate.com/tnsr/en/latest/map/index.html
Hopefully a "map" package will land in software for pfsense eventually but for now I will try install openWRT on 2100 if I can just figure out how to do it. U-boot is not easy
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@johnpoz - thank you for the suggestions of double NAT, tho I think it is not the optimal solution as I require wireless. Yes, the ISP router is very basic, but works out of the box with wifi 6 and I have a stable fast connection...If I didn't have to deal with MAP-E, I would put the ISP modem (yes, vdsl modem in 2023...) in bridge mode, hook up the netgate 2100 to it and use the ISP router as a simple access point for wifi.
