On 2023-03-24, Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just responding to this for completeness as I have some more information
> on my side
>
> On 3/24/23 07:21, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> On 2023-03-23, Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Unfortunately I haven't been well for a long time hence the delay in
>>> upgrade and at first found it a little difficult but the way forward
>>> after a bit of reading around was to go to 7.1-release then 7.2 and
>>> finally jump back to Current which I believe is called Beta now? (unless
>>> I missed something or am confusing)
>> The main release cycle is -current, -beta, <no suffix>, -current - this
>> hasn't changed. (The "no suffix" includes a few snapshots prior to an
>> actual finished release, and that's the stage we are at right now).
>
>
> Ah ok I see, I also understand what has happened in the meantime... no
> problem. I'll see if I really need to upgrade to current again as right
> now Beta seems to be doing everything I need
I suggest waiting until the actual 7.3 release and install that
(sysupgrade -r) n order that you can install errata patches.
It will be simpler if you do _not_ upgrade to a newer snapshot first -
sysupgrade can't go from a snapshot labelled "7.3" (as they are now)
to the actual release without modifying it.
> Just got off a lengthy phone call with Tier2 tech support at G-Net,
> which was a lot of fun!! It's so rare to talk in technical terms with
> someone and have them understand you.
That's a good sign.
> Currently there is a little confusion in how to setup the block of IP
> addresses as I have had to upgrade to a block of 16. Right now my
> connection gets a single IPv4 address through ipcp with the rest of the
> IP addresses being handled in PF through NAT/PAT mappings. I have
> forgotten how it is handled but I am willing to bet that my current ISP
> is forwarding those addresses in static routes??
>
> I am wondering if it will be similar except for the gateway IP address
> which will need to be provisioned on the WAN facing ethernet interface
> along with default 0 dot quaded route, or if I'm going to have to create
> sub interfaces for the rest of the provisioned IP addresses?? I am told
> that out of the 16 addresses I loose 3 - network, broadcast, gateway ,
> so I should have 13 addresses to play around with.
Typically you have pppoe pick up its own address - see examples in
pppoe(4) for this and setting the default route - and configure an
address from the /28 on another network interface on the router.
If you will be addressing other machines directly from that /28 (easier)
that would be a physical interface or vlan connected to those machines.
If you're doing that via NAT/rdr-to then you might want to use a vether
interface with one address configured as /28 and the others as /32
aliases.
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