On 2023-03-24, Kaya Saman <kayasa...@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 <kayasa...@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.
