[PLUG] ER-X: change login, save, reboot, cannot connect

[Tomas Kuchta]

Thanks for going through this systematically and with care Russell,

On my part, I admit that I really did not pay attention to 2lan versus
2lan2 difference. I thought it is just a typo. I am sorry if I caused
confusion.

-T

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 20:35 Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

> First, restore the config I sent you.
>
> You'll need to restart your network, since you'll get a 192.168.55.x
> address after the ERX restarts.
>
> Read this: https://dl.ubnt.com/guides/edgemax/EdgeOS_UG.pdf
>
> In particular, see Chapter 10 which covers users.
> I'm not sure where you'd set a hostname for the router. I am also not clear
> why you'd need that. If you want to create a local DNS mapping between
> names and your local IP address, look in Chapter 7 under the section
> labelled DNS.
>
> Chapter 12 covers Wizards. Turns out Tomas and I guessed wrong about the
> wizard names:
>
> "There are two SOHO deployment setup wizards available:• WAN+2LAN The
> WAN+2LAN
> setup wizard is the most basic version available. The WAN port is eth1. Go
> to the WAN+2LAN Wizard section below.• WAN+2LAN2 The WAN+2LAN2 setup wizard
> allows you to bridge the LAN interfaces and/or change the subnets
> configured
> on the LAN interfaces. The WAN port is eth0. You can also configure user
> accounts during setup."
>
> In addition, at the beginning of each wizard description, the manual says
> (varying slightly by wizard):
>
> "You can still use the WAN+2LAN setup wizard even if the EdgeRouter is
> already configured. The WAN+2LAN setup wizard ***will replace the entire
> configuration*** and require a reboot when the new configuration is
> applied." (emphasis added).
>
> If you were starting from scratch, the "Basic Setup" (which is the same as
> WAN+2LAN2), would be the thing to use, but not if you wanted to keep
> anything already configured on the device. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure
> restoring a configuration also completely obliterates what was there
> before.
>
> If you restore my config, you can ignore the wizards completely.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 5:03 PM Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
> wrote:
>
> > I matched the configuration you sent me, exactly, with the two exceptions
> > I explicitly mentioned. The wizard was not needed and is what stomped on
> > the configuration I had set up, and indeed was probably not what you
> > wanted. As Tomas suggested, the wizard you clicked on was probably to set
> > up one WAN and two LANs. You only need one (or only needed one in the
> > configuration you sent me, and you didn't tell me any different). If you
> > can get to the web interface, you shouldn't need to try to reset it. If
> you
> > get a 192.168.1.x address through DHCP, the router will be at 192.168.1.1
> > (not .4). Try there.
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 3:12 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>
> >> > The WAN+2LAN2 wizard is almost certainly what broke it. Rich asked me
> to
> >> > configure it, which I did. There was never any mention that WAN+2LAN2
> >> was
> >> > desirable or desired, so I'm perplexed why Rich would have felt
> >> motivated
> >> > to click on that option. Luckily, he has two, unless he possibly broke
> >> > both of them at the same time.
> >>
> >> I thought that's what I wrote. I 'desired' it because that's how the
> >> original er-x was configured. Not the WAN+2LAN but the WAN+2LAN2.
> >>
> >> Anyway, I rebooted the Dell it came up with the DHCP lease of
> 192.168.1.38
> >> but does not allow me to log in using either the default or re-assigned
> >> login names and passwords.
> >>
> >> So, I'll read how to reset it to factory defaults and start from
> scratch.
> >> As the Dell now accepts leases on eth0 I'll be able to re-do the wizard,
> >> services, and system configurations.
> >>
> >> Rich
> >>
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