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ok.. so, hypothetically, what happens when somehow, by complete stupidity, you disable all of the ip's for all of the interfaces to your star-os server box. Hypothetically, how would you go about accessing it, short of re-installing staros?
ok.. so, hypothetically, what happens when somehow, by complete stupidity, you disable all of the ip's for all of the interfaces to your star-os server box. Hypothetically, how would you go about accessing it, short of re-installing staros?
Firstly, you be very careful. :)
If it's a desktop version (CPE Desktop, router or server), you can access it via standard keyboard / mouse. If it's a CPE SBC Edition, you can restore the factory defaults via the serial interface.
I'm toying with the idea of writing a network discovery tool that will locate all your StarOS machines regardless of IP address. If you know the password, you will be able to assign a temperary IP to the system so you can log back in.
Thanks,
Tony Toole
ahhh, but what if it is the server version running on a soekris(pointless, I know). Also since I (hypothetically) disabled the IP addresses, even using a network discovery tool would do me no good, since none of the adapters have any active ip addresses. I went ahead and (again, hypothetically) re-programmed the CF card, there wasn't anything valuable in there, so no biggie, I just thought it was funny that somehow I managed to disable both ethernets and both wireless IP's (did it to change them to new IP's some of them were conflicting, then forgot to re-enable before I hit activate) all in one swipe. Maybe add a catch 'You have no active IP addresses on any of your adaptors, are you sure you want to activate these changes?' But then again, who in their right mind runs the server version on a SBC anyways.
ahhh, but what if it is the server version running on a soekris(pointless, I know). Also since I (hypothetically) disabled the IP addresses, even using a network discovery tool would do me no good, since none of the adapters have any active ip addresses. I went ahead and (again, hypothetically) re-programmed the CF card, there wasn't anything valuable in there, so no biggie, I just thought it was funny that somehow I managed to disable both ethernets and both wireless IP's (did it to change them to new IP's some of them were conflicting, then forgot to re-enable before I hit activate) all in one swipe. Maybe add a catch 'You have no active IP addresses on any of your adaptors, are you sure you want to activate these changes?' But then again, who in their right mind runs the server version on a SBC anyways.
The utility will still function if your StarOS box has no IP address. The utility will list all your StarOS Boxes it finds along with the name you assigned to them. If you know the password, you will be able to assign a temperary IP, Mask and Gateway to which ever device you require, on the box you messed up on. This will allow you to log back in to correct your problem.
We have some customers using the Router edition since it provides a more sound method for upgrading, and support future enhancements that will not be present in the CPE editions (due to size limitations).
Until such a scanning utility is finished, please make use of the configuration backup and restore utility to take periodic snapshots of your system settings so you can easilly restore them later if you have another configuration or hardware problem.
Thanks!