Input and Output Ports

Front Panel

The front panel of the Netgate 8300 contains several items of interest for connecting to and managing the device.

Front view of the Netgate 8300 Security Gateway with key items numbered

The items below are marked with numbers on figure Front view of the Netgate 8300 Security Gateway with key items numbered:

Item	Description
1	Power Supply Unit (PSU) Bays
2	Serial Console (RJ45)
3	2x USB 3.0 Port
4	Reset Button – Used when performing the Factory Reset Procedure.
5	ACPI Power Button - Graceful shutdown, hard power off (Hold 10s), power on
6	Status LEDs
7	10G/1G SFP+ Networking Ports
8	1G SFP+ Networking Ports
9	2.5G RJ45 Networking Ports
10	1G IPMI Management Port (P11, Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI))
11	Add-on Expansion Card Slots

Power Supply Unit (PSU) Bays (1)

The chassis contains two power supply unit bays located on the far left of the front side. The PSUs are hot swappable and the unit can operate with one or both PSUs connected to line power.

The Netgate 8300 BASE unit ships with one power supply, the Netgate 8300 MAX unit ships with dual power supplies. Additional power supplies are available. A second PSU can be added to the BASE model later by removing the blank panel cover.

Each PSU is 500W with 110V/240V AC input. It contains a standard IEC320-C16 (3-pin) power receptacle which accepts a standard IEC320-C15 power plug.

Serial Console Port (2)

Clients can access the serial console using the RJ45 “Cisco” style console port with a separate cable and USB serial adapter or client hardware port.

Note

The RJ45 Serial Console port is only for use with the Serial Console. It cannot be used for any other purpose.

2x USB 3.0 Ports (3)

USB ports on the device can be used for a variety of purposes.

The primary use for the USB ports is to install or reinstall the operating system on the device. Beyond that, there are numerous USB devices which can expand the base functionality of the hardware, including some supported by add-on packages. For example, UPS/Battery Backups, Cellular modems, GPS units, and storage devices. Though the operating system also supports wired and wireless network devices, these are not ideal and should be avoided.

Reset Button (4)

The Reset Button is used to perform the Factory Reset Procedure.

Pressing and immediately releasing the button has no effect, it does not perform a hardware reset.

See Factory Reset Procedure for details on how to use the button to perform a factory reset.

ACPI Power Button (5)

The large round lighted Power Button behaves the same as a typical ACPI power button.

If the device is powered on and running, pressing the button immediately performs a graceful shutdown and the system enters a standby state.

If the system is in a powered off or standby state, pressing the power button immediately powers on the device and starts the boot process.

If the system is unresponsive, holding in the power button for 10 seconds will forcefully power off the device. Press the power button again to turn it back on.

Status LEDs (6)

The status LEDs, including the backlight on the power button, indicate various status information for the device. The power button LED and the first two LEDs from top to bottom are for OS status, while the bottom LED is for the status of the baseboard management controller (BMC).

See Status LEDs for information on interpreting the meaning of different LED states.

10G/1G SFP+ Networking Ports (7)

This group of four ports labeled P0-P3 are 10G/1G SFP+ Networking Ports.

1G SFP+ Networking Ports (8)

This group of four ports labeled P4-P7 are 1G SFP+ Networking Ports.

2.5G RJ45 Networking Ports (9)

This group of three ports labeled P8-P10 are 2.5G RJ45 Networking Ports.

1G IPMI Management Port (10)

The rightmost RJ45 port labeled P11 is the 1G MGMT port dedicated to IPMI. See Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) for details on how to access IPMI.

Note

This dedicated IPMI management port is not visible to or usable by the operating system.

Add-on Expansion Card Slots (11)

These are expansion slots and covers which may house additional add-on cards such as for network interfaces. See Add-On Expansion Card Installation for installation information.

There are two available expansion slots:

• 1x PCIe 3.0 x8 LP (Low Profile) slot which supports half-length low profile cards.

  This slot has a PCIe-LP connector which is PCIe x16 but only wired for PCIe x8. While the slot supports PCIe x16 half length cards, only 8 lanes function.

• 1x PCIe 4.0 x16 slot which supports full-height three-quarter length cards.

  This x16 PCIe slot can supply a maximum of 75W directly.

  Note

  The power draw of standard 25-100 Gbit/s network interface cards will NOT exceed the standard 75W slot rating.

Networking Ports

The sections on the front of the device numbered 7, 8, and 9 in Front view of the Netgate 8300 Security Gateway with key items numbered contain the network interfaces. These ports are labeled P0 through P10 on the device and are grouped by speed.

Label	Assigned Name	Device Name	Type	Speed
P0	P0	ice0	SFP+	10 Gbps/1 Gbps
P1	P1	ice1	SFP+	10 Gbps/1 Gbps
P2	P2	ice2	SFP+	10 Gbps/1 Gbps
P3	P3	ice3	SFP+	10 Gbps/1 Gbps
P4	P4	ice4	SFP+	1 Gbps
P5	P5	ice5	SFP+	1 Gbps
P6	P6	ice6	SFP+	1 Gbps
P7	P7	ice7	SFP+	1 Gbps
P8	P8	igc2	RJ45	2.5 Gbps
P9	P9LAN	igc1	RJ45	2.5 Gbps
P10	P10WAN	igc0	RJ45	2.5 Gbps

Note

Network ports in add-on cards may shift the device names in the operating system however the default assignments still attempt match the assigned names with the labels on the device.

Note

The igc(4) network interfaces on this device do not support fixed speed operation. These interfaces emulate a speed/duplex choice by limiting the values offered during autonegotiation to the speed/duplex value selected in the GUI.

When connecting different devices to these interfaces the peer should typically be set to autonegotiate, not to a specific speed or duplex value. The exception to this is if the peer interface has the same limitation, in which case both peers should select the same negotiation speed.

Networking Ports with Add-on Cards

The current add-on network cards offered by Netgate all utilize the ice(4) driver regardless of speed and port type. These cards also all contain two ports each. The add-on cards get probed before the on-board ports, shifting the OS device names of the on-board ports. The default interface assignment code takes this into account when the cards are present on new/fresh installations and after a factory reset.

Warning

Adding an add-on card utilizing the ice(4) driver to an existing installation will cause the port assignments to be incorrect and may result in the WAN, LAN, and other ports being assigned to different physical interfaces.

There are two add-on expansion card slots on the Netgate 8300 device and they can both be populated with network cards, for a total of either two or four additional network ports.

The following table shows the default interface assignments for a Netgate 8300 containing a single two-port add-on card using the ice(4) driver:

Interface assignments with a single two-port ice(4) add-on card

Label	Assigned Name	Device Name	Type	Speed
P0	P0	ice2	SFP+	10 Gbps/1 Gbps
P1	P1	ice3	SFP+	10 Gbps/1 Gbps
P2	P2	ice4	SFP+	10 Gbps/1 Gbps
P3	P3	ice5	SFP+	10 Gbps/1 Gbps
P4	P4	ice6	SFP+	1 Gbps
P5	P5	ice7	SFP+	1 Gbps
P6	P6	ice8	SFP+	1 Gbps
P7	P7	ice9	SFP+	1 Gbps
P8	P8	igc2	RJ45	2.5 Gbps
P9	P9LAN	igc1	RJ45	2.5 Gbps
P10	P10WAN	igc0	RJ45	2.5 Gbps
n/a	ADDON0	ice0	Varies	Varies
n/a	ADDON1	ice1	Varies	Varies

The following table shows the default interface assignments for a Netgate 8300 containing two two-port add-on cards using the ice(4) driver:

Interface assignments with two two-port ice(4) add-on cards

Label	Assigned Name	Device Name	Type	Speed
P0	P0	ice4	SFP+	10 Gbps/1 Gbps
P1	P1	ice5	SFP+	10 Gbps/1 Gbps
P2	P2	ice6	SFP+	10 Gbps/1 Gbps
P3	P3	ice7	SFP+	10 Gbps/1 Gbps
P4	P4	ice8	SFP+	1 Gbps
P5	P5	ice9	SFP+	1 Gbps
P6	P6	ice10	SFP+	1 Gbps
P7	P7	ice11	SFP+	1 Gbps
P8	P8	igc2	RJ45	2.5 Gbps
P9	P9LAN	igc1	RJ45	2.5 Gbps
P10	P10WAN	igc0	RJ45	2.5 Gbps
n/a	ADDON0	ice0	Varies	Varies
n/a	ADDON1	ice1	Varies	Varies
n/a	ADDON2	ice2	Varies	Varies
n/a	ADDON3	ice3	Varies	Varies

Note

Cards utilizing different drivers may function in the add-on slots, but they will not be automatically assigned as interfaces by default.

Status LEDs

The Netgate 8300 has two groups of status LEDs: Three LEDs (including the power button) for the operating system status, and one LED for the baseboard management controller (BMC) status.

Close-up view of the Netgate 8300 Security Gateway Status LEDs

The Operating System status LEDs are labeled with shapes which correspond to each LED: Green Circle, Blue Square, and Black Diamond. The BMC status LED is labeled “BMC”.

OS Status LED Patterns

Description	LED Pattern
Standby	Circle pulsing amber
Power Applied	Circle solid amber
BIOS Booting	Circle flashing green
OS Kernel Booting	Circle solid green
OS Boot in Process	Circle flashing green, Square and Diamond flashing blue
Boot Completed/Ready	Circle solid green
Upgrade Available	Square solid amber
Upgrade in Progress	All flashing green
Triggering Reset	Circle, Square, then Diamond solid amber (Factory Reset Procedure)
Reset In Progress	All flashing amber (Factory Reset Procedure)

BMC Status LED Patterns

Description	LED Pattern
BMC Power Applied	BMC solid amber
BMC OS Booting	BMC flashing blue
BMC Boot Completed/Ready	BMC solid blue

Power Supply Unit LED Patterns

Each power supply has a status LED in the upper right corner (not pictured).

Description	LED Pattern
Power Applied + Power On	PSU solid green
Power Applied + Power Off	PSU flashing green
Power Loss to all PSUs	PSU off
Power Loss to one PSU [1]	PSU flashing amber
Warning Event [2]	PSU flashing alternating amber and green
Critical Event [3]	PSU solid amber

PSU LED Notes

[1]

When multiple PSUs are installed.

[2]

PSU continues operating during warning events. Warning events include: High temperature, power level higher than expected, current higher than expected, fan operating slower than expected.

[3]

Critical events cause a PSU to shut down. Critical events include: PSU failure, output over current protection, output over voltage protection, fan failure.

Rear Panel

The rear panel of the device has items which are not meant to be accessed as often as the front, as the device is intended to be mounted in a rack.

Rear view of the Netgate 8300 Security Gateway with key items numbered

The items below are marked with numbers on figure Rear view of the Netgate 8300 Security Gateway with key items numbered:

Item	Description
1	Fan exhaust grills
2	Ground connection
3	Power switch