[PLUG] Configuring a router: finding the missing step

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Sun Mar 4 23:20:30 UTC 2018


Why don't you ask Ubiquiti?  It's their product, not ours.  Although
it is running linux under the covers, the connection to PLUG is a bit
tenuous.  Also, write this down and repeat it often: "DHCP is your
dear and faithful friend."

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 2:26 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>   Configuring a new Ubiquity EdgeRouter-X I'm missing a step between
> connecting to the unconfigured router on its default IP address and
> connecting to it on the LAN address.
>
>   Connecting the laptop to the router on the 192.168.1.0 network I upgraded
> the firmware to the newly-released version 1.10, then restored the saved
> config
> file from the old router. Then I rebooted the router, but it did not want to
> complete; I don't know what I did incorrectly up to this point.
>
>   Resetting the network from 192.168.1.0 to 192.168.55.0 and restarting the
> laptop after moving the cat5 cable from eth0 on the router to eth1, I tried
> to connect to it. This failed as the 'network is unreachable.' Sure enough,
> there are no routes to the network or a default gateway.
>
>   I could do a hard reset on the router to default configuration and start
> over upgrading the firmware OS and restoring the saved config file, but I
> need to learn what step I missed between the configuration on the default
> network and connecting to the local LAN network address.
>
>   A pointer or two will be very helpful.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
>
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