I have shut down my eBlocker. Then I have it unplugged from power supply and from the Router Fritzbox 7490. Next I reconnected the LAN cable and the power supply. But now my WLAN were not working. So I activated the DHCP server on the Fritzbox. That brought my WLAN back alive. But my eBlocker remained and remains unreachable in the network on its previous IP address. What can I do in order to reconnect my eBlocker and make it working?
As your eblocker is setup as your dhcp, your fritz dhcp has to be disabled. Then reboot the Fritzbox.
Now you should be able to connect to eblocker.box again
In the future, your eblocker has to be the first online device as it is your dhcp server for the whole network lan and wlan.
Your eblocker has to be the first online device as it is your dhcp server for the whole network lan and wlan.
How should it being made? I am not sure that my eBlocker is being launched. So I would do these steps:
- Disable DHCP server on Fritzbox.
- Unplug from power both Fritzbox and Raspberry Pi with eBlocker SD card installed.
- Connect Raspberry Pi via LAN cable with Fritzbox.
- Plug power on to Raspberry Pi.
- Wait five minutes.
- Plug power on to Fritzbox.
- Wait until WLAN of Fritzbox is available at my computer.
- Connect with eblocker.box or its IP address as has been valid before.
Should that be working?
@facebita yes it should 🙂
Doesn't work. Obviously the eBlocker is not running properly. At least, I can not connect to eBlockers web interface by eblocker.box or by its previous IP address. But allthough the DHCP server at Fritzbox now is shown as disabled WLAN and internet works – at the moment. That's very strange.
Can you see the eblocker and its ip in the fritzbox?
Can you see the eblocker and its ip in the fritzbox?
Not really. On http://fritz.box/#overview I see that there is one LAN connection established. But on http://fritz.box/#netDev no active LAN connection wil being displayed. The eBlocker ist listed under "unused connections". I have clicked on it, so I came to http://fritz.box/#edit_device. There I have tried to launch it with Wake on LAN. But with no success.
What additional takes me wonder: The both lights, green and yellow, at the LAN socket at my Raspberry Pi do not flicker but instead these lamps shine continiously.
I think, something went wrong already with the "Stutdown" or when I have unplugged the Raspberry from power. Perhaps there the device is been fallen into an undefined status.
The internet tells, that when the green light is always on, there is something withthe sd card...so take a new one and start with flashing it with a fresh image.
I'm afraid, that there will be no other option
@calimero Thanks a lot. Now I have flashed a new SD Card with a new original eblocker boot volume. And when I connect the Raspi with this card to the Fritzbox the green light is flickering. But at the same moment my internet connection is going dead.
@facebita monitor attached to the raspi to see what it shows? Dhcp activated in the fritzbox? Latest eblocker image used? Dashboard or setting of eblocker reachable?
But at the same moment my internet connection is going dead.
Don't mind the Internet connection. Just follow the Setup Instruction - and I highly recommend to use the Individual Network Mode. After successful eBlocker setup the Internet will work again.
Alternatively you can use a configuration backup from your old install to speed up setup (ie. Trusted Apps etc). Nevertheless, a new network setup is needed in any case.
THX!
@random Thanks to all of you guys and your patient support! My eBlocker is now being working again.
@facebita great it is working again. For the audience it would be great if you can tell what was the issue and your solution at the end.
Cheers
@calimero The issue was: For the first time after three years of continously running my eBlcoker I switched it off in order to resolve a cable salad, but at all without considering that the eBlocker is running the DHCP server for my network. Unfortunately the switch-off or then the unplugging from power has been killing the eblocker installation of the SD card. As I then have re-plugged in the eBlocker no DHCP server was available, so my network was completely off. And the router - Fritzbox 7490 - wasn’t available under its former IP address. So I had configured step by step from the scratch my eBlocker-on-a-Fritzbox-7490 installation as written in the eBlocker manual. - An now I add address by address the domains were eBlocker should be deactivated.