Reseting edgerouter lite

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iamsammajor

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#245124 19-Jan-2019 22:36

Help with reseting edgerouter lite please.

I couldnt not login the router throught 182.168.1.1

I did manually set my pc ip to 192.168.1.2 and router to 192.168.1.1

Search online said hold the reset key to reset. The led on eth2 will go from flashing to steady. Then reset will began. The light never go flashing.

How else i can reset the router. Anyone can help me please...

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Sam

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#2163894 19-Jan-2019 23:24

Get a console cable, connect it to your computer and see what happens when it boots. (Or just cut up a patch cable and make one, same pin out that Cisco routers use).

My first Edgerouter died due to a failed flash memory drive. Boot loader started just fine, but would hang with read errors from the card.

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#2163984 20-Jan-2019 09:35

I had a similar issue a few years back, as @Aredwood said, the flash memory of the ERLite was dead.

Inside the ERLite, the flash memory is actually a 2GB or 4GB flash drive. I opened up the ERLite and checked the physical dimensions of the original flash drive and bought a new USB drive that can fit, and flashed the new drive with an updated firmware.

You can google it and find some instructions about it.

Unfortunately the original flash drive of the ERLite is pretty bad (a known problem).

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#2164023 20-Jan-2019 11:39

Aredwood: Get a console cable, connect it to your computer and see what happens when it boots. (Or just cut up a patch cable and make one, same pin out that Cisco routers use).

My first Edgerouter died due to a failed flash memory drive. Boot loader started just fine, but would hang with read errors from the card.

Rj45 to rj45 or Rj45 to dp9?

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#2164024 20-Jan-2019 11:40

AKLWestie:
I had a similar issue a few years back, as @Aredwood said, the flash memory of the ERLite was dead.

Inside the ERLite, the flash memory is actually a 2GB or 4GB flash drive. I opened up the ERLite and checked the physical dimensions of the original flash drive and bought a new USB drive that can fit, and flashed the new drive with an updated firmware.

You can google it and find some instructions about it.

Unfortunately the original flash drive of the ERLite is pretty bad (a known problem).

I cracked open and change the drive. And trying to find a console cable or buy one on a sunday.......

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#2164352 20-Jan-2019 17:58

found a way to flash the new usb driver without console cable, now the router is brought back to life. thanks everyone for your help.

thanks,

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#2164505 21-Jan-2019 06:50

the new usb is now dead, i gave up fixing, it might be something else rather than the storage.

after i fix it and put in all the configure, it works well for about 10 hr, then i found error 500 when i try to login.

maybe it is time to have a new router.

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#2164508 21-Jan-2019 07:12

Mine just died. but was the power supply (died around the 2 year old mark)

I had a spare edge router x so used that power adapter...

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#2164510 21-Jan-2019 07:14

mentalinc: Mine just died. but was the power supply (died around the 2 year old mark)

I had a spare edge router x so used that power adapter...

mine has to be storage related tho. Just could not figure what ia causing it. Glad you have a spare as backup lol.

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#2165076 22-Jan-2019 04:36

I have had the power adapters for both my ERLs die, so check if that is the problem. Jaycar has a compatible one - just check the label on the adapter for the correct specifications.

When setting things up in an Edgerouter, if you are doing something that will write data, you must ensure that you are not getting it to write to the USB storage. For example, if you run tcpdump and store the results, and you do that to the USB, it will die rapidly. USB sticks are not built for frequent small write operations - they wear out. Just a few days of operating with writes to the USB stick is enough to kill it. In my ERL, I use /var/log as a good place to write things to, as it is on a ramdisk. But anything written to RAM will be lost on a crash or reboot, so it you want to write data and keep it across a reboot, then you need to send it to another box for storage. For example, you can send log messages to an external syslog server. If you need something more than just messages, you can pipe the data to another box using standard Linux piping techniques.

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#2165085 22-Jan-2019 06:57

fe31nz:

I have had the power adapters for both my ERLs die, so check if that is the problem. Jaycar has a compatible one - just check the label on the adapter for the correct specifications.

When setting things up in an Edgerouter, if you are doing something that will write data, you must ensure that you are not getting it to write to the USB storage. For example, if you run tcpdump and store the results, and you do that to the USB, it will die rapidly. USB sticks are not built for frequent small write operations - they wear out. Just a few days of operating with writes to the USB stick is enough to kill it. In my ERL, I use /var/log as a good place to write things to, as it is on a ramdisk. But anything written to RAM will be lost on a crash or reboot, so it you want to write data and keep it across a reboot, then you need to send it to another box for storage. For example, you can send log messages to an external syslog server. If you need something more than just messages, you can pipe the data to another box using standard Linux piping techniques.

the new usb is dead same as the old one, could read part of it from PC, but error during formatting.

i gave up on the idea of changing USB, had killed three usb so far, it is not worth doing it if i dont know how.

has gone back to fritz box until i found a replacement,

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#2165599 22-Jan-2019 17:39

I had the same problem of not being able to get another USB thumb drive working. The ERL boot loader kept on failing to detect the new drive. But the new drive would work just fine in Windows. Maybe the issue is similar to the Winmodem problem from back in the dialup days. Where cheaper dialup modems used the host computer to carry out some processing functions. And such modems wouldn't work in DOS, Linux etc.

I solved the problem by just buying a new ERL.

I still have the old one, so hoping to eventually find a drive that works. And get that ERL going again.

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#2165640 22-Jan-2019 18:02

Remember - as it runs Linux the flash drive is also in the Linux partition structure - you'll need a Linux PC to read it (or the correct library's on Windows). Otherwise, it'll just come up with a message stating you need to format.

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iamsammajor

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#2165739 22-Jan-2019 20:13

michaelmurfy:
Remember - as it runs Linux the flash drive is also in the Linux partition structure - you'll need a Linux PC to read it (or the correct library's on Windows). Otherwise, it'll just come up with a message stating you need to format.

The last drive i put in, it has the edgerouter up and runing.
It worked for 8ish hours and i found out it stop when i tried to log in but has error 500 once enter id and password to login.

Then i tried the same trick. Didnt work, error came up when i tried to flash the os into the usb.

Fritz.box is great but has some internet drop through out the day. Is there any rock solid router you recommend apart from edgerouter, Michael?
Thanks advance
S.