I can ping the AP's from the openwisp vm, and I can ping the openwisp vm from each of the AP's; I am not sure that I can ping the AP's from inside the container openwisp is running in, and I'm not sure which container I should be pinging from.
On Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 9:12:59 AM UTC-7 f.capoano wrote: > Can you ping the devices from the central server using their local > addresses? > Or do you need a management VPN between the server and the network devices? > > Federico > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 at 13:01, 'Joe Gullo (surfrock66)' via OpenWISP < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm testing a small install of OpenWisp, deployed via Docker, for a >> series of 3 dumb AP's (Zyxel NWA50AX Pro) with OpenWRT on them. These >> are just PoE AP's, offering no DHCP, DNS, etc, and this POC will be used as >> a pitch for further OpenWISP deployment. >> >> OpenWisp is installed as a docker container in its own VM, and that is on >> my server VLAN. The AP's are on our network device VLAN, and they can all >> ping each other just fine, as well as bidirectional ping to and from the >> OpenWisp VM. >> >> OpenWisp is up, and I've installed the OpenWisp packages on the AP's. I >> did auto-provisioning, and they all show up under devices. I deployed a >> demo config, and that shows as "applied". The one hiccup is that each >> device is showing as critical, and that's because they're failing their >> ping check. >> >> I noticed each device wasn't getting the "Management IP" populated, so I >> set the "OPENWISP_CONTROLLER_MANAGEMENT_IP_ONLY" setting to "False" in >> .env, but I'm not getting any feedback that the setting took, so I set the >> IP manually to match the "Last IP" value. >> >> I figured I should perform a ping test from the actual docker container, >> and not the VM, but there are 13 containers and I'm not sure which one the >> ping check would be coming from. >> >> Any guidance would be appreciated! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "OpenWISP" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openwisp/a47c4b42-84f7-4397-99d0-25964bacbef0n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openwisp/a47c4b42-84f7-4397-99d0-25964bacbef0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenWISP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openwisp/93b83977-9b19-486a-8dcb-d568f0c6a211n%40googlegroups.com.
