Is my Netgate 6100 bricked? 3 lights flashing (blue, blue, green)
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@ryanrozich said in Is my Netgate 6100 bricked? 3 lights flashing (blue, blue, green):
@stephenw10 Thanks I wasnt sure which option to choose when opening the ticket so I chose TAC lite. Ticket is 2056287515
Fingers crossed that I can get it back to life, I went bigger on my 3rd netgate appliance when getting the 6100 hoping to invest in something that would last a long time.
Support replied to my ticket suggested re-imaging the software if it powers up
If not, apparently Im out of luck because it’s out of warranty.Kinda tough to justify dropping another $800 on something to replace something that lasted only 2 years. I’ve been rooting for Netgate, especially since they’re Austin-based and Bob from sales has been awesome and super-knowledgable, helping me buy my last two netgate boxes; but I might switch gears now.
Eyeing the Unifi Gateway Professional since it's got 10G ports for LAN/WAN and its cheaper than the 6100. Ubiquiti provides a 2 year warranty and when I buy with my AMEX that doubles to a 4yr warranty. Hoping to buy a quality gateway that will lasts at least 5yrs.
I’m not into deep network customization, just need solid security for my home/office. Plus, it should play nice with my Ubiquiti WiFi setup (2 x U6 enterprise AP + U6 exendder), also the unifi admin console is pretty slick .
Any of you have experience with Ubiquiti gateways or other reliable options that won’t bail on me in two years?
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@ryanrozich said in Is my Netgate 6100 bricked? 3 lights flashing (blue, blue, green):
@RobbieTT a lot. It was a 120W power supply.
Ok, 54v would be rather exciting!
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@ryanrozich said in Is my Netgate 6100 bricked? 3 lights flashing (blue, blue, green):
Support replied to my ticket suggested re-imaging the software if it powers up
If not, apparently Im out of luck because it’s out of warranty.Kinda tough to justify dropping another $800 on something to replace something that lasted only 2 years. I’ve been rooting for Netgate, especially since they’re Austin-based and Bob from sales has been awesome and super-knowledgable, helping me buy my last two netgate boxes; but I might switch gears now.
Eyeing the Unifi Gateway Professional since it's got 10G ports for LAN/WAN and its cheaper than the 6100. Ubiquiti provides a 2 year warranty and when I buy with my AMEX that doubles to a 4yr warranty. Hoping to buy a quality gateway that will lasts at least 5yrs.
Any of you have experience with Ubiquiti gateways or other reliable options that won’t bail on me in two years?
Well tbh, your device might have been ok by just swapping a correctly rated PSU.
I have seen many external PSUs die in and just out of warranty time , so I wouldn't go saying that your 6100 device lasted only two years.
Also, I don't think any company will swap/repair under warranty a device that you have fried using the wrong PSU, in this case more than four times over-voltage (54V vs 12V)... -
@ryanrozich said in Is my Netgate 6100 bricked? 3 lights flashing (blue, blue, green):
Any of you have experience with Ubiquiti gateways or other reliable options that won’t bail on me in two years?
I have loads, so ask away. I even run UniFi APs, multi gig switches etc at home too.
There might be more than one reason why my router/firewall isn't behind the nice UniFi management single pane of glass though...
UniFi has been known to let the expensive smoke out too:
They did try to mess me about with the above device and the just-out-of-warranty stuff. But following some further failings and messing about they did come good just after the first notice-of-action arrived.
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@mvikman said in Is my Netgate 6100 bricked? 3 lights flashing (blue, blue, green):
Well tbh, your device might have been ok by just swapping a correctly rated PSU.
Given @RobbieTT observations above, it sounds like the PCB (not the PSU) was toasted from the start. The 6100 should not require being plugged into power before the client can connect to the USB serial console, since I could not connect to the serial console, the problem was likely not the PSU
@mvikman said in Is my Netgate 6100 bricked? 3 lights flashing (blue, blue, green):
I have seen many external PSUs die in and just out of warranty time , so I wouldn't go saying that your 6100 device lasted only two years.
If the above is correct, the 6100 board was likely DOA from the start and it was just over 2 years since I bought it, so I feel justifiably disappointed in the quality given the price point
@mvikman said in Is my Netgate 6100 bricked? 3 lights flashing (blue, blue, green):
Also, I don't think any company will swap/repair under warranty a device that you have fried using the wrong PSU
If it was under warranty I would not have had to go to a community support forum to ask for advice on a failure with an LED pattern that was undocumented and unknown, I would have just sent it in for service or replacement. With other vendors I am able to get at least 4yrs coverage.
I do appreciate everyone in the community here that offered advice and guidance to try and help me fix this!
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@ryanrozich said in Is my Netgate 6100 bricked? 3 lights flashing (blue, blue, green):
the problem was likely not the PSU
I agree. You could test the PSU to confirm that though.
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@RobbieTT said in Is my Netgate 6100 bricked? 3 lights flashing (blue, blue, green):
I have loads, so ask away. I even run UniFi APs, multi gig switches etc at home too.
Thanks! I self host the unifi console on a PC in my closet now - run a multi-gig PoE switch powering 2 U6 enterprise AP and a U6 Extender. Have been really happy with the performance of the wifi equipment (I can get like 1500 over wifi, even on my phone)
What are the pros/cons you would say of using Ubiquiti gateway that I linked to? I was planning to keep using my current muti-gig switch so think that just running a standalone gateway and switch might be better than getting an all-in-one like the unifi dream machine models. I do really like the unifi console and mobile app.
Are there any other manufacturers for a gateway you would also recommend looking at? I'm not a super-user, as you could see from this thread I never even connected the serial console to my netgate box before, and rarely needed to ssh into the netgate box except for a few times when the web console went down.
Your setup is
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The current breed of UniFi gateway was seemingly launched and then deigned. At launch and even to this day it misses out on rather basic router/firewall functionality (ipv6, ACLs, QoS, NAT, PPPoE).
Progress has been slow and haphazard on core functions whilst they busy themselves on the shiny features like new VPNs, IPS/IDS, GUI toys, reinventing how VLANs work, again, etc. Nothing seems to get fixed beyond the 'looks nice and kinda works' stage before they move on to the next notional feature trinket. Along the way they have made some epic howlers that have left users in the lurch. The have no real beta program anymore as they race through the nominal process at speed with little regard to any feedback before going live and hitting the recognised problems but now at scale.
There are some security fundamentals that appear to be absent... but that isn't for here. I stuck around on their old EdgeRouter line for as long as I could. But devs moved on and the product has died a slow death over the last 3+ years. Funnily enough they are trying to revive it at the moment - by giving it a new GUI on top of the old abandonware of EdgeOS. Now where did we see a focus in shiny things before...
The Silicom products that Netgate currently use are, for this market segment, pretty-well designed and built. Component selection is sensible and the OEM is alive, well and paying attention to its product. Sure, they are built to a price but they are not the cheap boxes you get from China. They are reasonably expensive though and this stick-shock is not helped if it fails at such a young age.
The Supermicro 1U devices that Negate uses at the higher end are high quality devices and very reliable. Sadly their price has not decayed inline with their design age.
I'm not well-placed to comment on other non-pfSense / non-Netgate devices, given the forum. Plus I'm someone who chose to come to Netgate just this year, having looked at the wider market and in full knowledge of an undesirable performance hole that is relevant to me (PPPoE in BSD). It's been a challenging journey with other (yet to be fixed) issues - but I want to stay and see them sorted-out.
The rack-for-home-use discussion would be a good one but not on this thread.
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@RobbieTT said in Is my Netgate 6100 bricked? 3 lights flashing (blue, blue, green):
I stuck around on their old EdgeRouter line for as long as I could. But devs moved on and the product has died a slow death over the last 3+ years. Funnily enough they are trying to revive it at the moment - by giving it a new GUI on top of the old abandonware of EdgeOS.
Thank you for these comments, super helpful! when you say "trying to revive it" are you referring to that device I mentioned? The Gateway Professional?
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@ryanrozich
The lines about EdgeRouters and EdgeOS are about UI's EdgeRouters and EdgeOS, which are being revived with a GUI update. My comments on the UniFi UDM-Pro & UXG-Pro routers are in the first 2 paragraphs.
