[olug] Edgerouter ideas help!!!!

Sat May 31 15:43:32 CDT 2025

Good to hear it worked out.
Will have to look into this
 “Ubiquiti Cloud Ultra”

On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM Craig Wolf <wolfout101 at gmail.com> wrote:

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