Wow, I stop checking the forum for a bit and come back to find that the ZFS patch has been released! 👏

Thank you to @marcosm @stephenw10 @cmcdonald @dennypage @arri @w0w @SteveITS @Gertjan @fireodo @chrcoluk and everyone else that has contributed to this discussion and process.

Hopefully, this change will help reduce the change of storage failure for all devices running pfSense, especially those using small-sized and/or eMMC storage.

It is encouraging to see that additional areas have been identified for further improvements to storage wear and space usage.

We have progressed a long way from "you're holding it wrong." 😉

Well I won't go much higher. You don't have much RAM to play with. Maybe 160MB.

@scottlindner Wrong subject? :) Agreed but they document it. It’s a bit worse changing models or reinstall/restore because I always have to look up which to use.

Mmm, you wouldn't expect to find all the backup config files to have to same date. It does sound like maybe it was overwriting the backups with changes as it tried to boot repeatedly.

@b3rt Re-reading your responses and saw the ports being used in the photo... just wanted to confirm what I am seeing..............
VLAN 20 = ports used are 1 and 5, both tagged,, maybe port 1 is AP and port 5 is uplink?

VLAN 10 = ports 1;2;3;5 all tagged using static IP? maybe printer, NAS etc? port 5 is uplink?

VLAN 1 = ports 4, 5 port 4 for maintenance laptop and 5 uplink?

If I am correct, then this shows I can remove all ports on Native VLAN except for uplink / Trunk (port 5)?

Yup that^

But that is the correct MD5 hash for that file so it looks like an issue with your Etcher install somehow.

It depends why they stopped repsonding and how unresponsive they actually are.

If it has some network issue I would expect it to keep logging as normal.

If it had some drive or filesystem error it may continue to function for some time but be unable to log anything.

It can lock up hard and stop logging or responding entirely but that is far less common. Usually some low level OS bug.

😁

@binary_bandit said in monitoring hardware on 8300 units:

Hello all,

Has anyone been able to monitor the hardware on the 8300 appliances?

I've been unable to set up SMTP alerts using the Insyde IPMI controller. I've also explored SNMP using the IPMI controller, but can not locate an MIB that provides access to the BMC sensors.

I'd like to know if a power supply failed, fan stops spinning, etc.

best,
James
Thank You for sharing this experience, James!

This is another BIG REASON for fraction of the Netgate’s price (sorry) buying IBM/Dell/Fujitsu bare metal 2xCPU STOCK server, upgrade it for maximum performance, installing Mellanox NICs and have no problem with pesky problems with SuperMicro’s impotence to make normally worked BMC (search on this forum about problems with BMC-interaction software ("Supervyse" looks like Netgate’s customization of Supermicro's “SuperWEB” interface that are on top of Insyde Software Corporation firmware with ASPEED AST2620-A3 chipset) and .MIB profile file.

But, if Netgate (which declared himself as “world's leading firewall, router, and VPN solution for network edge and cloud secure networking. With millions of installations worldwide” HAVE NO RESOURCES (or NOT SEE ANY REASONS) TO MAKE PROPER .MIB FILE FOR MONITORING SO CRITICAL NETWORK APPLIENCE, You may try to editing by yourself the .MIB file from Supermicro which are supplied with this model of motherboard

No any guarantee, but with 90% probabilities - this “hint” may be working, because very rarely middle/small size brands spending resources for changing anything around BMC firmware. More frequently- just changing the label picture on web interface pages and in CLI…:)

If I have a time, I try this and report about results…

P.S.
For now I am completely sure that for enterprises Zabbix are outdated 5-7 years ago (but still used in many enterprises around the world), and better building the monitoring solutions based on Prometheus (with Vector.dev/Clickhouse for DB) + Grafana.
Of course, vanilla Prometheus + Grafana (better choice) or LibreNMS would be 100% enough for monitoring for small companies or for home users.

It's in beta now. I'm running it in "production" and see no issues. That may not be an option for you though.

Hard to give anything certain but we are looking at weeks I think.

@Mission-Ghost Interesting. Sounds like the 4200 is going to be worth the extra cost.

@JonathanLee said in Netgate 8200 NVMe Replacement:

@smsigroupit I am sorry, there is a lot of technology products can not be shipped outside the United States because of specific laws. I would contact Netgate and or keep waiting for an official Netgate user to respond.

Thank you very much for your help.

The power button remains red. I will connect to the console and let you know soon.

Thanks a lot,
Gabor

I did.

Yes, the if_pppoe module is in 2.8-beta too.👍

Because it's a combo port there is very little flexibility there. There are no real settings on the port. It either works or it doesn't.

I've tested a few different modules there myself including some BiDi and GPON modules. But I'm not sure I've tested a singlemode module personally.