I'm totally in love with my new ER-X-SFP. It's so cute! But oh, that amazing power behind that cuteness. It's such an incredible piece of high class engineering and innovation at such a fantastic price. I'll love it even more so once I can get it to work. LOL.
I'm have a cable modem, which goes to a new dual-band wireless router (R1), and that goes to my old single-band wireless router R2 which has several switches connected to it and serves the majority of my home network for the time being. I was planning on doing the 3 dumb routers scenario to get a DMZ and unfortunately had bought the new router before I saw the Ubiquity Light.
Cable <==> WAN--| R1 |--Lan (.2.1/24) <---> WAN (.2.10/24)--| R2 |--LAN (.0.1/24)
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|----> WAN eth0 (.2.101/24) -| ER-X-SFP |- LAN (1.1) -- eth1 (.1.2)
I have both the old R2 router and the EdgeMax connected to the LAN side of the new router R1.
R2 WAN has a static IP of 192.168.2.10 and the LAN side is .0.1. All the rest of my devices are currently on the 192.168.0/24 subnet with a handful of DHCP reservations.
The ER-X-SFP WAN is 192.168.2.101 and switch0 (eth1 & eth2) is .1.1 so my connection to it is .1.2
I have a question about the initial setup. Networking noob that I am, I'd rather do my initial setup and testing behind my existing wireless router R1. I immediately updated it to EdgeOS 1.9.0, and ran the Basic Setup Wizard. So it has some basic routes, Firewall/NAT rules and such. I think I can do this testing behind R1 since stuff connected to R2 works just fine and has Internet access.
So far, so good. I'm connected to the EdgeMAX and I can see lets of bits flowing. Tx and Rx numbers for eth0 (pseudo internet), eth1 and switch0. I just don't know what they are or why. LOL.
I have the other ports configured, mostly following the SOHO example. With a few execptions. Two ports eth1/eth2 on switch0, one port will be for a DMZ, and one will be the PoE port for my new UniFi WAP-AC-LR. It's currently on my "new" router, using the included PoE injector, and it works great.
Under Basic Settings for the System, I have the System Gateway set to the .2.1, the LAN side of R1. There's one static router to R1's LAN port, and 3 "connected" routes. I setup DHCP rules for each subnet, LAN, DMZ and WAP. There are WAN_IN and WAN_LOCAL Firewall/NAT rulesets, each with two rules, although I'm not clear on who does what to whom, or exactly what "local" means. I think it's whatever's on switch0? Am I missing a WAN_OUT?
This machine has two nics, one going to R2, that gives me "real" internet connectivity, and one private that goes to the ER-X-SFP.
Using the EdgeMAX / private NIC only, Windows tells me I don't have Internet connectivity. I can't ping eth0 as 192.168.2.101. I get "PING: transmit failed. General failure.". So of course, I can't ping the router's LAN port at 2.1 or get out into the big bad world.
I'm obviously missing at step but I don't know what it is. Or I have something configured incorrectly. So I'm hoping someone here can figure what stupid mistake I did and why this awesome little box has no Internet connectivity.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark