Anyone else using ClearOS and having trouble getting dhcp on an external port?
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@travisdh1 said:
I'm thinking next week will be starting with me building a CentOS router from the ground up. While I know how to do most of it, I'm going to look for a good set of instructions first.
Why use a "build your own" Linux router? Why are you not using a hardware router or, at the very least, a router OS like VyOS?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
I'm thinking next week will be starting with me building a CentOS router from the ground up. While I know how to do most of it, I'm going to look for a good set of instructions first.
Why use a "build your own" Linux router? Why are you not using a hardware router or, at the very least, a router OS like VyOS?
VyOS? I'll have to check that out. Mostly because the other software routers I know of are just more of that Jurassic Park Effect you were talking about @scottalanmiller.
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@travisdh1 said:
VyOS? I'll have to check that out. Mostly because the other software routers I know of are just more of that Jurassic Park Effect you were talking about @scottalanmiller.
Who makes a software router other than VyOS? Everything else is a full OS that isn't meant to be a router just routing in additional to being a general purpose OS. VyOS is the only software router I would consider (and the only one I have considered for a decade now.)
Why a software router? Is this in a VM?
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VyOS is the reason that I fell in love with Ubiquiti. They build hardware to run VyOS on, which is exactly what I wanted. Full stack hardware support (and a MIPS RISC board) for VyOS. VyOS is to routing what normal Linux is to servers.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
VyOS? I'll have to check that out. Mostly because the other software routers I know of are just more of that Jurassic Park Effect you were talking about @scottalanmiller.
Who makes a software router other than VyOS? Everything else is a full OS that isn't meant to be a router just routing in additional to being a general purpose OS. VyOS is the only software router I would consider (and the only one I have considered for a decade now.)
Why a software router? Is this in a VM?
Sure is. Not the ideal I know, but it had been working well.
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@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
VyOS? I'll have to check that out. Mostly because the other software routers I know of are just more of that Jurassic Park Effect you were talking about @scottalanmiller.
Who makes a software router other than VyOS? Everything else is a full OS that isn't meant to be a router just routing in additional to being a general purpose OS. VyOS is the only software router I would consider (and the only one I have considered for a decade now.)
Why a software router? Is this in a VM?
Sure is. Not the ideal I know, but it had been working well.
Not so bad in a VM, presumably behind the "real" firewall and only firewalling internal systems from each other. Still, VyOS is much lighter. Runs nothing that isn't needed and is a customer platform for routing, rather than tacking routing on top of an already bloated system.
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VyOS configuration style would remind you of Cisco IOS.
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@scottalanmiller said:
VyOS configuration style would remind you of Cisco IOS.
Time to dive into something new then, off I go.
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@scottalanmiller said:
VyOS is the reason that I fell in love with Ubiquiti. They build hardware to run VyOS on, which is exactly what I wanted. Full stack hardware support (and a MIPS RISC board) for VyOS. VyOS is to routing what normal Linux is to servers.
VyOS is pretty similar to Cisco IOS too. (without the cost)
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Instead of wandering around the actual issue as @scottalanmiller is doing.
How about we ask a related question or two?
First, what version of ClearOS? 5.2 was rock solid and stable. 5.2 was based on CentOS.
ClearOS 6 was a mess. They chose to break off of CentOS and moved to their own distro.I still have a 5.2 system out there running just fine.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Why a software router? Is this in a VM?
Do any SMBs do this? Routers in VMs are common in the Datacenter. But in the SMB you usually only have edge routers, which you probably don't want your WAN connection connected up to a Vswitch/vNic as there is potential for exposure if there is any flaw in the Host OS.
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Then a basic trouble shooting step.
Plug something else in and see if it pulls an address.
Of note, if it is a commodity cable service, they bind to the MAC and the modem will have to be rebooted in order to pull and IP on a new device.
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@JaredBusch said:
Then a basic trouble shooting step.
Plug something else in and see if it pulls an address.
Of note, if it is a commodity cable service, they bind to the MAC and the modem will have to be rebooted in order to pull and IP on a new device.
Try leaving the modem off for 5-10 min too. Sometimes the Tables in the Carrier network need to be cleared and your all good after that.
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@JaredBusch said:
Instead of wandering around the actual issue as @scottalanmiller is doing.
What do you mean? I'm awaiting the config file to be provided. I'm not wandering around in the least. Look at my first posts. I'm waiting for the troubleshooting info.
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Monday morning and back at it. Anyway, ifcfg-eth2
cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2 DEVICE=eth2 TYPE="Ethernet" ONBOOT="yes" USERCTL="no" BOOTPROTO="dhcp" PEERDNS="yes"I wonder if it could be a missing hardware address, gonna go lookup the MAC and add that in.
