[TriLUG] OT: Wired Gigabit Router Postscript, or Post Mortem...

Tue Oct 27 10:42:45 EDT 2015

Very cool. Glad to here you finally got it going.
I still have it sitting in a wish list along with this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KVF7S40

Which, while significantly more expensive, seems to offer the same
functionality and adds 10G and a load of ports.

Weighing my needs and options...

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 5:35 AM, Scott Chilcote <scottchilcote at ncrrbiz.com>
wrote:

>
> Update, for the statistically likely 25% of one LUGger who cares enough
> to be following this saga...
>
> I took a new tack on the Ubiquiti forum and asked for anyone who had
> gotten their router to function as a PPTP VPN client to post their
> configuration.  One of the company employees came through and posted
> their data dump.
> I was able to use this information yesterday evening to get the
> EdgeRouter Lite to work for its intended purpose.
> It's seriously helpful to have all of the details in one location!
>
> If anyone wants to attend the retirement ceremony for the Linksys 54GL
> let me know.  It's a small office, so space is going fast  ;-/
>
>    Scott C.
>
>
> On 10/13/2015 02:44 PM, Scott Chilcote via TriLUG wrote:
> > Hi Lee,
> >
> > No luck with the EdgeRouter Lite.  I could find no means of specifying
> > the  PPTP client's remote subnet or subnet mask.
> >
> > I don't know whether these parameters are essential for a PPTP client
> > config, but the DD-WRT, Ubuntu, and Windows configuration editors for
> > PPTP client setup all have them and I had no trouble setting up those.
> >
> > The only PPTP client interface config information I could find on
> > Ubiquity's website didn't provide a means to specify these parameters.
> > What little info they had was in a wiki page, which was removed from
> > their website during the time I was trying to get it to work.
> >
> > I did what most of the other new users wind up doing, which was to post
> > asking for help on their forum site.  I had a few of their experienced
> > users try to help out, but none of them appeared to have a PPTP server
> > to test against and their advice didn't work.
> >
> > The Ubiquity products are widely held to be a breakthrough in power for
> > price.  But they are very "work in progress".  There is no graphical
> > configuration for the PPTP client config.  It's command line based for
> > now.  I made some progress experimenting with the command line
> > parameters, but I reached a point where I got the web interface to crash
> > and reboot the router a couple of times.  After that I put the thing on
> > the shelf and went back to my old DD-WRT/54GL.
> >
> > I will probably give up the notion of going wired-only for my home
> > office and get another one of Intrex's TP-Link routers one of these
> > days.  It's a weird shaped, unstackable appliance with a radio I don't
> > need, but cheap and reliable.
> >
> >    Scott C.
> >
> >
> > On 10/09/2015 01:52 PM, Lee Fickenscher via TriLUG wrote:
> >> Hey Scott,
> >> I'm now in a position where I could use a similar device.
> >> I want a dedicated p2p VPN back to the office's Cisco 5505.
> >> Have you had any luck getting it going?
> >>
> >> -Lee
> >>
> >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Scott Chilcote via TriLUG <
> >> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello LUGers,
> >>>
> >>> The reason I was looking for a wired-only router in my earlier thread
> >>> was to connect my home office computers to my employer’s VPN.  The
> >>> product I wound up purchasing was a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite
> >>> <
> >>>
> http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeMax-EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-Ethernet/dp/B00CPRVF5K
> >>>> .
> >>> Or “ERL”, as its dedicated, cult-like fan base refers to it.
> >>>
> >>> As it turns out, buying this router for such a purpose is like going to
> >>> the hardware store for a stud finder, cracking off the shrink-wrap, and
> >>> finding out that you have brought home the Starship Enterprise rev. A.
> >>> You think about taking it back to the store, but then it occurs to you
> >>> that within seconds of arriving in a solar system it can locate and
> scan
> >>> all of the planets, tell you whether they have atmospheres, are
> >>> inhabitable, and harbor civilizations.  So really, it ought to be able
> >>> to tell you where the snippets of metal behind your wallboard are
> hiding.
> >>>
> >>> Instead of comprehensive documentation, all you have is a 16 page Quick
> >>> Start Guide.  And it doesn’t even include the word “sensor”.  But on
> the
> >>> other hand, there's a website address…
> >>>
> >>> If advice like “The graphical configuration support is very much a work
> >>> in progress, so most users get the job done using the command line
> >>> interface” Spark your sense of intrigue, this might be your ideal
> >>> product.  And if you really begin to salivate when you see that the
> >>> software is a fork of the open source network operating system Vyatta
> >>> 6.3, you /may/ have already waited too long.
> >>>
> >>> I’m three weeks into setting up this pint-sized 3 port obelisk,
> >>> attempting to accomplish what I was able to do in five minutes with
> >>> DD-WRT by filling out a handful of text fields and clicking "Apply
> >>> Settings".  I spend an hour or so a day wandering through the support
> >>> forums on Ubiquiti’s website, waiting to see if one of the veteran
> users
> >>> will be sufficiently bored enough to share a crumb or two of
> laboriously
> >>> extracted knowledge.
> >>>
> >>> I should have taken the hint and sent it back in the original box when
> I
> >>> found that the instructions for configuring a client VPN were not in
> the
> >>> product specific manual (there isn’t one), and not in the 50 page PDF
> >>> manual for the router’s operating system.  I eventually found those in
> a
> >>> wiki file on the company’s support pages, but it took Google keyword
> >>> searches to ferret them out.
> >>>
> >>> But like John Cleese in Monty Python’s cheese shop sketch, “I am keen
> to
> >>> guess!”  So on it goes.  Why settle for incremental progress when you
> >>> can seek out new life, and new civilizations?
> >>>
> >>> Scott C.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Scott Chilcote
> >>> scottchilcote at ncrrbiz.com
> >>> Cary, NC USA
> >>>
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> Scott Chilcote
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