I am trying to configure a new router to replace the current one running IPfire and would like to do so with minimal down-time.
However it seems like when I connect the new router via the red interface to the old’s green one there is some issue with accessing NTP servers on the new one and that makes all package installation via pakfire fail.
Any idea how I could at least temporarily solve that?
What have you set the DNS server page to on your second IPFire system.
I have two IPFire systems one after each other and I have no problems at all…
How have you set up the old router’s dhcp page in terms of giving a dhcp address to the new router. Have you defined it by a fixed lease or do you have available dynamic dhcp addresses to be used.
There is a dynamic range and the new router gets an IP as expected.
I don’t think it is an DNS issue as pakfire explicitly complained about a network time related issue with verifying the packages or so.
But what exactly should I put on the DNS page? It seems to be able to contact DNS servers ok?
What does your DNS WUI page look like.
You could either have the line saying that you are connected to the ISP DNS server, which in this case would be the IP address of the green interface of your first IPFire system.
Alternatively you could add in specific DNS servers into the list so that the second IPFire contacts external DNS servers directly.
To see why your NTP is having a problem, look under the WUI menu Logs - System Logs and then select NTP in the drop down box and then press the Update button.
There should be some message indicating why NTP is having a problem.
Often in the past a common reason for the NTP not working is that the DNS server is not working and hence the NTP server cannot find out the IP address for the FQDN defined for the NTP pools.
You can also check if DNS service is working by going to the console command line for the new second IPFire system and trying the command
ping -c4 ipfire.org
If it comes back and says that it can’t resolve ipfire.org then there is a DNS problem.
If the ping works and you get 4 responses with an IP address specified then the DNS is working.
In that case information from the NTP system log is going to be required to figure out why it is having a problem.