Router reboot causing infinite initialization
Yesterday among other things i rebooted my router to do some cable management and NAS work, and now RatOS is stuck in a infinite initializing loop, been like that all night
I didn't change any network config apart from some Port Forwarding
Any suggestions on what to look into?
33 Replies
rising-crimson•16mo ago
so i've gone to the Configure link and told it what network to connect to again, this link now no longer works so i assume it's done something
still doesn't load mainsail though
rising-crimson•16mo ago
prolly got a new IP when you did that and RatOS.local is cached on your machine. Try rebooting your computer or use the IP address (get it from your router).
rising-crimson•16mo ago
so my machine has been rebooted
and, lucky me, my router is a piece of shit and doesn't let me see what devices are connected to it
fucking smart, always online devices, i have to log into their customer portal of my ISP to change settings 
can try and disable cache and see though, ty
can try and disable cache and see though, tyoh boy, that's.. something 😂
rising-crimson•16mo ago
yeah, it works quite well
apart from when their website is down for maintenance and i can't change settings...such as Wifi passwords
or you need a "advanced" feature and see what the ip of things connected to it is
i might just pull out my old router and use it, though i still have to use my ISP one since the fiber SFP goes directly into it
🤦♂️ why would you need internet access to do that, that's so crazy.
rising-crimson•16mo ago
ikr
this would have been fine, if the default gateway access was also enabled
which it isn't
So what i'll do is get my old router setup and try to connect the raspberry through that instead as i will have full control of that
currently i can't get the configure page to work either, is there any way to make it go back into that mode?
There's no mode, /configure should always work
rising-crimson•16mo ago
interesting
The reason you're getting this is because the application is cached in your browser, there's no response from your pi
If you do ctrl + shift + r it'll give you the same "This site can't be reached"
rising-crimson•16mo ago
so it's fairly safe to assume, that right now it's not connected at all
yes
rising-crimson•16mo ago
gotcha, i'll keep looking into it and come back to you 👍 cheers
rising-crimson•16mo ago
So the update is...no luck, i can see the Pi is hosting the Ratos wifi, and i can connect to it successfully, but still not reach anything on ratos.local/configure
Tried using a internet cable aswell, from the PI to the switch and when that failed directly to the router, still reaching nothing and erroring out with this error
With the wifi hotspot, use 192.168.50.1
rising-crimson•16mo ago
will try that ty
god damn look at that, it worked
well i got into mainsail
... i tried this earlier and it didn't work
but now it does
i hate computers sometimes
all working, thanks for the help 👍
When in doubt, use the IP address
rising-crimson•16mo ago
fair
strange thing is, the ip address i'm using now is 192.168.1.4 
i'm now using my old router, it actually lets me see the ip for things connected to it, makes it a breeze to find the pi 👍
i'm now using my old router, it actually lets me see the ip for things connected to it, makes it a breeze to find the pi 👍Your own router assigns it an IP once connected. 192.168.50.1 is hard coded with the hotspot.
rising-crimson•16mo ago
yeah figured, i tried using that earlier and didn't get anywhere for some reason, assume it solved itself somewhere in my troubleshooting
previously, when using the ISP router i tried a lot of IP's before i found the one the PI was on...absolutely stupid
Basic networking. The hotspot is basically it's own router and has a static IP address. When you then connect to your router, that assigns it a new IP address
rising-crimson•16mo ago
i am familiar with how they work
the problem being not being able to know what IP the PI was one once connected to the router, as the one from my ISP doesn't list connected devices...
yeah that's no fun
rising-crimson•16mo ago
yeah
did find out you can have CMD list everything on the network it can find by using "arp -a"
so that's quite neat
did find out you can have CMD list everything on the network it can find by using "arp -a"
so that's quite neatYup, lot's of cool Linux commands
Nmap is another one you could use
rising-crimson•16mo ago
that's for linux? i'm talking about the DOS window in Windows
rising-crimson•16mo ago
ah neat, ty
Yeah a lot of Linux commands have been ported to windows and now with subsystem for Linux you can just install a Linux os and run them natively
rising-crimson•16mo ago
that's quite neat
i've wanted to fiddle with Linux at some point, just never have had the time for it
What is Windows Subsystem for Linux
Learn about the Windows Subsystem for Linux, including the different versions and ways you can use them.
basically install whatever linux flavor you want via windows store. easy as it gets