I try to integrate a RAK 7249 in our existing Chirpstack Environment.
By now I have Gateways based on RPi + RAK2245 that communicate using UDP Packet forwarder via OpenVPN.
Now I wanted to add a RAK7249 because I need the LTE connection.
I setup LTE and OpenVPN which looks to work properly bebecause I can contact the web GUI over VPN connection and I can ping the chirpstack components from within the web GUI.
In the systemlog I can see that lora_pkt_fwd is working and sending up messages as well as the received datagrams.
Neither the up messages nor the datagrams are received on chirpstack side.
So every 30 datagrams the lora_pkt_fwd restarts.
Firmware Version is: 1.1.0062_Release r202
Here is the VPN config (which works fine on the RPi s) :
As far as I investigated the issue right now:
The UDP packages sent from the gateway do not arrive on the chripstack gateway bridge.
In the meantime I also tried to configure it to connect to the mqtt server of the chirpstack.
I can see a lot of failed connection attempts in the mosqitto log.
So the connection should be there.
Is there any extra config I need to do when the connection is established over LTE ?
Can you also see the gateway connection status when you connect to TTN?
If so, be sure to check your LTE connection, as he may not have access to the outside network, or switch to an LTE card.
I am experiencing the same problem with a RAK7258. Gateway not showing as alive in chirpstack
Running on ethernet at the moment for testing
Could rak provide a config example and firewall rule settings if different from default
here is my openvpn config setting on the gateway.
I am using pritunl free version as the openvpn server
Notice I have tried adding “local xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” with the gateway local ip and commented nobind as suggested in another post in this forum but no luck. Gateway not showing as alive in chirpstack
Also not that it runs on firmware 1.1.0062_Release r202 which i downloaded from the forum because 0061 does not allow to upload a config file.
setenv UV_ID xxxx
setenv UV_NAME xxxxx
local 192.168.1.13
client
dev tun
dev-type tun
remote xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 15954 udp
#nobind
persist-tun
cipher AES-128-CBC
auth SHA1
verb 2
mute 3
push-peer-info
ping 10
ping-restart 60
hand-window 70
server-poll-timeout 4
reneg-sec 2592000
sndbuf 393216
rcvbuf 393216
#max-routes 1000
remote-cert-tls server
comp-lzo no
key-direction 1
Hi @geeks-r-us
I am hoping we can get to the end of this.
In my case the gateway is connected with ethernet, I tried with wifi also and get the same issue.
I don’t believe it is because of the LTE connection. I see from your diagram above that you got it working with two gateways not on LTE. Can you please confirm that please?
Can you please share your client openvpn config on the gateway that is working?
Did you find a way to test the upd traffic? I tried a few commands from terminal in the gateway to test access to the udp port of the chirpstack server but can’t get anything to work. Relying just on the status of the gateway on chirpstack.
Thanks Nicholas but I have been through it before and it is not explaining why udp packets are not getting to the server but the rest is. Again I am using pritunl because it is much easier to set up and manage and it is built with openvpn .
