One of my internet service providers uses PPPOE for the internet connection. Sometimes if the physical connection is down for a long time the pppoe0 interface is no longer reconnecting or is stuck (looks like connected but no traffic passes through it). I found out that the problem is solved by force reconnecting it through… Read More »
That warm feeling that you contributed to the community when you find your bug report in an official release notes 🙂 There is a new firmware release EdgeRouter ER-8/ERPro-8/EP-R8: Firmware v1.9.1 that reports as fixed an issue first reported by me for the 1.9 firmware. The issue was reported in the thread Update to 1.9… Read More »
An EdgeRouter firmware update from 1.8.5 to 1.9 broke my L2TP based VPN. After the update my l2tp connection to local subnets was no longer working. Note that I have a load balancing setup with eth0 and eth1 being the load balanced WAN interfaces. It seems that due to the changes done for the l2tp… Read More »
After seting up Security Onion as my home data center IDS (see https://blog.voina.be/data-center-ids-solution-using-security-onion/) I started to integrate monitoring of other resources to it. The first idea was to add the monitoring of my EdgeMax routers. Security Onion has a syslog-ng service that is able to receive client syslog data. Then we can visualize this data… Read More »
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a routing protocol for Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Because I have site-to-site OpenVPN and IPSEC tunnels between my primary and remote sites I ended up defining lots of static routes. The environment started to be complex enough to justify the use of OSPF that is supported by EdgeRouter. The… Read More »
The following are the steps I used to perform to set up an IPSEC VPN with a vti (virtual tunnel interface). The advantage is that using a vti gives us a route-able interface so making it easy to work with the IPSEC tunnel. The current setup looks like: Primary Site: ER-8 (with load-balancing WAN1 and… Read More »
Trying to fix my OpenVPN site-to-site link and due to the environment update I had to do some changes. The initial setup of the OpenVPN is here https://blog.voina.be/edgerouter-dual-wan-hair-pin-multiple-networks-openvpn-site-to-site-vpn/ First of all there is a new EdgeRouter ER-8 that is directly linked to the main ISP I got this from Amazon.de see Ubiquiti ER-8 Netzwerk/Router .… Read More »
My setup becomes more and more complicated bellow there are the updated steps of my configurations with references to the original posts containing the partial configurations. STEP 1 EdgeRouter : Dual WAN with Hair Pin Initially I started with a dual-wan configuration with some extra setting to exclude from load balancing the hair pin connections:… Read More »
I wanted to use for my site-to-site VPN connection some aliases in the configuration files. The simple solution was to configure some dynamic DNS aliases with afraid.org After creating an account and defining a site name like site1.mooo.com do the following from CLI configure set service dns dynamic interface eth0 service afraid host-name site1.mooo.com set… Read More »
As a result of setting up my site-to-site VPN see this it is much easier to transfer things from one site to the other. The questions that came to mind were: What is the bandwidth of my VPN ? What is the limiting factor ? My ISPs or the Edge Router ? To answer to… Read More »