Help me set up a static route?
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Ok, so I’ve been trying to set up a static route on a Netgear Orbi mesh router for the past few days and I just can’t seem to figure it out.
A quick back story. I was using bridging for all of my docker containers, but I decided to use a custom br0 network and give all of my containers their own IP addresses. After making the change, I am no longer able to access my local containers when connected to the VPN.
Unraid tells me I need to set up a static route of the following. Remark: docker containers on custom networks need static routing 10.253.0.0/24 to 10.0.0.4
However, I only have the following options on the Netgear router. Destination IP Address, IP subnet mask, Gateway IP Address, and Metric
I’m not exactly sure how to get this working so I can once again access my docker containers over the VPN.
I honestly have never worked with static routes and I can usually get things working by tinkering for a bit, but I’m at a loss here.
What am I doing wrong? Is there just a limitation with the Orbi system, or am I just an idiot? 😂
Thanks
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Dest IP: 10.253.0.0 Dest Subnet: 255.255.255.0 Gateway IP: 10.0.0.4 Metric: 1 (shouldn't really matter)
https://kb.netgear.com/24322/How-do-I-set-or-edit-static-routes-on-a-NETGEAR-router
Ok, I had exactly what you put in there with the exception of the metric value. I used 2 because the Orbi router requires a metric greater than 1 and less than 16. So using 1 or 16 actually throws an error message.
Now, I got it to work thanks to your feedback. Knowing I had the route set up right, I started doing some investigating. You ready for this? I made changes to the VPN which required a peer update. Guess what I didn’t do? Yup, I never updated my peer 🤦♂️. So yes, I’m the idiot today 😂. Thank you for your help!
