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    3100 will reach "End of Life" in 5 days

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    • adamwA
      adamw @mcury
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      @mcury

      I'm wondering about 3200 as well. Is it in the pipeline at all?

      We use squid proxy which is no longer supported on 3100 and upgrading to 24.03 not recommended for that reason.

      We can survive a couple of months but I don't want to stretch it too much.

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        mcury Rebel Alliance @adamw
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        @adamw said in 3100 will reach "End of Life" in 5 days:

        I'm wondering about 3200 as well. Is it in the pipeline at all?

        Not that I'm aware of, I'm just a regular user..

        @adamw said in 3100 will reach "End of Life" in 5 days:

        We can survive a couple of months but I don't want to stretch it too much.

        If I were in your position now, I would get a SG-4200, it will give you a lot of time don't thinking in upgrade..

        dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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        • adamwA
          adamw @mcury
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          @mcury

          Any idea about EOL dates for 2100 and 4200?
          https://www.netgate.com/support/product-lifecycle doesn't mention either.

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          • GertjanG
            Gertjan @adamw
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            @adamw said in 3100 will reach "End of Life" in 5 days:

            4200

            The MAX version was presented 3 weeks ago ....
            Not sure they already know when it stops before it begins ^^

            No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
            Edit : and where are the logs ??

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              mcury Rebel Alliance @adamw
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              @adamw said in 3100 will reach "End of Life" in 5 days:

              @mcury

              Any idea about EOL dates for 2100 and 4200?
              https://www.netgate.com/support/product-lifecycle doesn't mention either.

              Well, according to the link you provided, EOL will happen after 1-3 years after EOS (end of sales).

              As I see it, someone corrects me if I'm wrong about it, you shouldn't worry to much with EOL for x86 devices.
              SG-5100 is a device that we can use as an example for this, it is EOL for a long time and to this day, you can install the latest firmware, with all packages available.

              SG-3100 is a particular case, it is ARM-32 bit and it is the only 32-bit device in the Netgate appliances lineup and it was released 6 years ago (not sure about the date).
              I heard that upstream (FreeBSD), is also not going to support 32-bit architecture anymore.

              The lifespan of the SG-3100 has been great to be honest.

              So, answering your question, I'm not sure about the SG-2100, but SG-4200 will definitely be around for a long time, even if its EOL.

              Everything that I said here is my point of view, I could be wrong ok ?

              dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                Nothing planned yet for 2100 or 4200. No plans to stop building for either AFAIK. The 4200, being x86-64, will likely be supportable for many years.
                It's hard to know the future but we only stopped supporting x86-32 years after we stopped selling hardware that required it. Everything we have ever sold that is x86-64 will still run current pfSense AFAIK.

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                  mcury Rebel Alliance @stephenw10
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                  @stephenw10 said in 3100 will reach "End of Life" in 5 days:

                  Nothing planned yet for 2100 or 4200. No plans to stop building for either AFAIK. The 4200, being x86-64, will likely be supportable for many years.
                  It's hard to know the future but we only stopped supporting x86-32 years after we stopped selling hardware that required it. Everything we have ever sold that is x86-64 will still run current pfSense AFAIK.

                  Thanks stephenw10 for clarifying things for us.

                  So, is it correct to assume that SG-4100 will also be here for a long time, right ?
                  PS: I'm a SG-4100 owner 😊

                  dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                    I would certainly expect it to be. There is no complex custom code required for that, for example, which would need significant developer time to maintain.

                    At some point it will be marked EoL and from then it would be maintained as best effort. If some new bug or security issue was discovered specific to that platform it might potentially be excluded but AFAIK that's never happened to any previous devices. Hard to predict the future though!

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