Rich, If no-one else has laid claim, I would be interested in the Dell laptop. What are the specs?
Vernon On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 2:41 PM Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > Wes commented on this earlier. When your laptop's ethernet link state > changes it is reconfiguring the interface. > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 8:59 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > > > Well, since changing laptops resolved the connectivity issues I can > > > quickly re-do everything on this router and get the spare back up and > > > running. > > > > One done, one to go. > > > > 1. Set second IP address (192.168.1.101/24) on dev eth0; that also set > the > > route. > > > > 2. Checked by pinging 192.168.1.1. Okay. > > > > 3. Pointed browser tab to 192.168.1.1. > > > > 4. Restored complete config.boot file; saved and rebooted. > > > > 5. Switched cat5e from eth0 to eth1. > > > > 6. Discovered that when the router rebooted it wiped out the interface IP > > addresses on the laptop. How interesting! > > > > 7. Set laptop's interface IP address (ip addr add 192.168.55.6/24 dev > > eth0); > > that set the route, too. > > > > 8. Repointed browser tab to 192.168.55.4, logged into router using > default > > name/password. > > > > 9. In Users tab changed login name/password. > > > > 10. In Systems set host name, time zone, and upgraded OS to 2.0.8. > > Rebooted. > > > > 11. Repeated Step 7. > > > > Logged in to the router using new name/password. > > > > What must have switched me off the track to success using the Dell is the > > loss of interface IP address and route when the ER-X reboots. I must not > > have checked that properly. > > > > My thanks to Russell, Wes, Tomas, > > > > Rich > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
