On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 1:18 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, Russell Senior wrote: > > > Did you restore the config I sent you, like I suggested? > > I need to be able to communicate with the router to do this. It was the > next > step after setting a username and password. But after saving the change and > rebooting, and rebooting the laptop, communications were lost. > > Cannot do a soft reset from the menu if the laptop and router will not > communicate. > > > • Power-on reset Disconnect power from the EdgeRouter. Press and hold the > > Reset button while connecting power to the EdgeRouter. The port LEDs will > > light up in sequential order. Keep holding the Reset button until the LED > > on the last port starts flashing, and then release the button." > > > > Which did you do? > > > > You realize that it will go back to the state where you need to connect > to > > eth0 and set a static IP on 192.168.1.x/24 (where x not equal 1), and > then > > connect to 192.168.1.1 and restore the config I sent you. > > That's correct. And the laptop needs to get an IP address lease from the > router and be able to load the GUI admin page. > You need to configure your laptop with a static IP, at least until you get the DHCP server on the ERX running again. > > Will use a different laptop. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
