Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues [FIXED]

2019-12-21 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Glad you got it all sorted out for Christmas. Happy holidays and the new year, Tomas On Sat, Dec 21, 2019, 14:43 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > You can absolutely change the password using the web interface without > > running the setup wizard. > > > Cannot

Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues [FIXED]

2019-12-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: You can absolutely change the password using the web interface without running the setup wizard. Cannot remember the exact web menu, but it is definitely there. If you wish, you could also ssh in and run passwd. Tomas, It's on the Users menu along t

Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues [FIXED]

2019-12-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: You can absolutely change the password using the web interface without running the setup wizard. Tomas, I thought this to be the case but I did not see it on the System menu. That has only the host and domain names. I'll dig deeper in the user guide an

Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues [FIXED]

2019-12-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
You can absolutely change the password using the web interface without running the setup wizard. You can also add new user, then make that user admin and disable the default user. Cannot remember the exact web menu, but it is definitely there. If you wish, you could also ssh in and run passwd. H

Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues [FIXED]

2019-12-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: I would like to point out, for initiated, the wan+2lan thing is a configuration wizard. It removes previous configuration and writes clean config template populated with a few basic input values. Tomas, I did not realize that selecting a setup wizard o

Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues [FIXED]

2019-12-18 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I would like to point out, for initiated, the wan+2lan thing is a configuration wizard. It removes previous configuration and writes clean config template populated with a few basic input values. This means that the old config is gone and you need to look up what you got in a documentation: https

Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues [FIXED]

2019-12-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Russell Senior wrote: I'd suggest restoring the configuration I sent you and then doing the DHCP lease range and login credential changes *only*. Don't do the wizard thing. The 'wizard thing' is where I set the login name and password. I need to be able to log in after con

Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues [FIXED]

2019-12-18 Thread Russell Senior
I'd suggest restoring the configuration I sent you and then doing the DHCP lease range and login credential changes *only*. Don't do the wizard thing. On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 1:58 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > Now I can no longer connect; firefox cannot

Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues [FIXED]

2019-12-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Now I can no longer connect; firefox cannot reload 192.168.55.4. The router will stay powered on as I don't believe it has a journaling OS. Fixed: Restarted /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 which is Slackware's interface daemon. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues

2019-12-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Russell Senior wrote: As I mentioned, probably several times before, if you are on the same network (in your case 192.168.55.x/24) then you don't need to specify a route to get to other addresses on that same network. Russell, That's why I could not determine why could no

Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues

2019-12-18 Thread Russell Senior
Furthermore, DNS has nothing to do with your problem. You are using numeric addresses. DNS is about turning names into numeric addresses. If you start with numeric addresses, you aren't using DNS. As I mentioned, probably several times before, if you are on the same network (in your case 192.168.5

Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues

2019-12-18 Thread Louis Kowolowski
I don’t see anything here that suggests your problems have anything to do with DNS. It appears that you have (likely) layer3 connectivity issues. I’m going to assume that you’re using a known functional ethernet cable and you get a link-up (either lights on devices, or ifconfig shows the interf

Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues

2019-12-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Russell Senior wrote: The loopback interface has nothing to do with your problem. 127.0.0.1/8 on lo is normal. Russell, Okay. I'm used to seeing 127.0.0.1/24 You should configure your laptop to use DHCP (since you don't seem to understand networking enough to use manual

Re: [PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues

2019-12-18 Thread Russell Senior
The loopback interface has nothing to do with your problem. 127.0.0.1/8 on lo is normal. You should configure your laptop to use DHCP (since you don't seem to understand networking enough to use manual configuration to get it working), plug it in, automatically get a lease, and then connect your b

[PLUG] Two hosts: lo address and route issues

2019-12-18 Thread Rich Shepard
Attempting to tweak the configuration of the ER-X (port eth1) using the Dell 2100 (interface eth0) I'm encountering loopback address and routing issues that I've not fixed using ip. When the laptop boots 'ip link show' has only 127.0.0.0/8 (the loopback interface) when I expected it to have 127.0