[olug] Edgerouter ideas help!!!!

[Craig Wolf]

Rob, the cap was fried. Long story short, bought the Ubiquiti cloud ultra
and was able to rebuild everything successfully.

Craig Wolf
(402)990-3010

Strengths: Activator, Relator, Adaptability, Learner, Achiever
Take a moment to Make a moment! - Shekeela/VZW


On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hopefully, this helps someone down the road.   Stupid thing with so much
> “Enterprise” tech and Ubiquiti EdgeRouters is that when they go sideways,
> you have-to-have a serial cable connection.  I loved making crossover
> serial cables when I was a kid because I had teletypes and modems.
>
> A few times,  a EdgeRouter and maybe one of their Edge switches would
> appear dead, completely dead just like the power supply is dead.
>
> After a serial port connection finally responds (unplug and replug power
> with serial cable in and then press Enter many times), there is the
> equivalent to the well known RTC battery died “Press f1 to continue”
> message.    This was years and years ago, but it was something like “Press
> Enter to run a filesystem check”.    The boot process has not yet had
> the chance to run the `blinkie` program, so no LEDs are lit up yet and
> looks like power supply is dead.   All that may have to be done is press
> the Enter key and things are back to normal in five minutes.
>
> When it loses its configuration (which it does when “professionals” like me
> crisscross the dhcpd config with the dnsmasq config), the LED lights may
> seem to work fine, but fubar is your reality.  The config file is all
> dorked up or just completely blank.
>
> Connect a $8 serial / Cisco console USB-to-RJ45 cable from laptop to
> router.
> I have-to-have scripts just to connect because it is always unexpected and
> an emergency, but things like baudrate and clear-to-send prove to be picky.
>
>
> After resetting power, press the Enter key hundreds of times until the
> EdgeRouter logon screen appears over the serial connection.
> Once logged-in to the EdgeRouter via rs232, a previous config can be
> restored by:
>
> $> sudo su -
> # configure
> # echo “Run some configuration comparisons.”
> # compare saved
> # compare 0 1
> # compare 1 2
> # compare <TAB TAB TAB> to get a dated list.
> # echo pick version X to go back to
> # restore X
> # <TAB TAB TAB> to find the commit and save commands.
> # reboot
>
> Sorry I did not think of this in a more timely manner, but circumstances
> have forced me to relive so many tech nightmares recently, I cannot keep
> track.
>
>
> On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM Craig Wolf <wolfout101 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There is a Ubiquiti cloud key + that controls the WiFi. There are 4 VlANs
> > on the wireless and the wired network. A basic one won’t work
> > unfortunately…
> >
> > Craig Wolf
> > (402)990-3010
> >
> > Strengths: Activator, Relator, Adaptability, Learner, Achiever
> > Take a moment to Make a moment! - Shekeela/VZW
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 5:25 AM Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Craig, can you describe a little more detail about the quick Band-Aid
> > > solution you're looking at for them?
> > >
> > > If they just need a basic firewall router to get a small office with a
> > > handful of computers and printers back online, and possibly a camera
> used
> > > to record services, then a basic home router would be sufficient to
> > bridge
> > > until the full replacement can be setup.
> > >
> > > Or are their needs more complex, even in the short term?
> > >
> > > Dan
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> > > On Wed, May 7, 2025, 19:28 Craig Wolf <wolfout101 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am just not going to have the ability to get this fixed in the time
> > > frame
> > > > they are looking for. Curious if anyone would be interested in
> helping
> > > them
> > > > out.
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