TNSR Home+Lab - apt update/upgrade safety

mmercier

Hello,

With TNSR Home+Lab, is it safe to run:

apt update
apt upgrade

i.e. Will running the above have any impact on the TNSR software?

Thanks,
Mike

jimp

That is safe (and we encourage doing so!) the only thing you might need to watch out for is that if there is a kernel update, it will need to recompile the kernel driver modules. That should be all automatic when it happens.

Current versions should catch that and do it on their own but if not you can run sudo apt-get --reinstall install netgate-dpdk-kmods and it'll rebuild the kernel modules.

If there is a kernel update, be sure to reboot afterward.

You can always boot off the old kernel/modules if it fails.

mmercier

@jimp said in TNSR Home+Lab - apt update/upgrade safety:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install netgate-dpdk-kmods

I performed an apt update; apt upgrade, after reboot I seem to be missing the physical interfaces. I tried your suggestion and see the following:

fesadmin@rtrexllab01:~$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install netgate-dpdk-kmods
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Reinstallation of netgate-dpdk-kmods is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.

In the CLI

fesadmin@rtrexllab01:~$ sudo clixon_cli

Netgate TNSR Version: 22.10-2

This system is not configured for package updates.
For information see 'show documentation'

rtrexllab01 tnsr# configure
rtrexllab01 tnsr(config)# int
 BondEthernet0         BondEthernet0.610     BondEthernet1         bond                  bridge
 clear                 local0                loopback              memif                 subif
 tap                   wireguard
rtrexllab01 tnsr(config)# interface
rtrexllab01 tnsr(config)# show configuration running cli intf
interface BondEthernet0
    enable
exit
interface BondEthernet0.610
    enable
    ip address 10.240.1.1/24
exit
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/0
    enable
    ip address 10.254.2.41/29
exit
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1
    bond 1
exit
interface TenGigabitEthernet2/0/0
    enable
    bond 0
exit
interface TenGigabitEthernet2/0/1
    enable
    bond 0
exit

NOTE: This is the TNSR Home+Lab edition, I do not have a license.

Thanks,
Mike