[PLUG] Configuring a router: finding the missing step

[Tomas Kuchta]

The config is saved as JSON AFAIK. So it should be relatively easy to see
what is going on.

I would recommend enabling DHCP at least for some small address range on
the router. At least that way, you will be able to obtain correct IP and
network config - then connect to the router when something like this
happens.

Tomas

On Mar 5, 2018 9:05 AM, "wes" <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
>
> What you describe is more or less the correct set of steps. There isn't a
> missing step I'm aware of. I imagine there is some other problem going on,
> but not enough info to determine what.
>
>
> >   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.'
>
>
> Why move your connection from eth0 to eth1? Did you try all the ports?
>
>
> > Sure enough,
> > there are no routes to the network or a default gateway.
> >
>
> Since you're not using DHCP, you won't find automatically generated routes
> nor will a default gateway be set. None of this matters; all that matters
> is whether you can ping .1 of whatever network you're on or not.
>
>   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.
> >
>
> This is a reasonable step, and as you say, the most efficient path to
> getting connection to the router. However this doesn't tell us a whole lot.
> Sometimes just "doing it again" works, and if we're lucky that will be the
> case here. More likely, the same steps will result in the same condition at
> the end.
>
> I wonder what format your router backup file uses. If it's plain text, it
> may be useful to us to look it over and see if we can find any obvious
> trouble spots.
>
> -wes
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