Gustin Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Mitchell Brown wrote: > >> You guys, after your lovely presentation insipred me to set one up of my >> own. Okay, the install went smooth. >> I've got two network cards in it, and I've correctly identified them as >> green and red. Now, when I plug a machine into my green interface, and >> try and ifup it, it cant get an IP from the DHCP server! I set it up to >> act as it (although I can no longer find the menu to change it :-/) but >> it still doesn't see the machine. >> >> > In the web GUI, click: Services -> DHCP server > > >> Even though I couldn't get an IP, I tried going to http://192.168.1.1:81 >> (The IP I gave it) and, not surprisingly, it failed. >> >> > https://192.168.1.1:445 > > Of course you need to manually configure an ip address on your > workstation. Under linux the following should work: > ifconfig eth0 up > ip addr add 192.168.1.200/24 dev eth0 > ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 > > Windows should be straight forward (look in tcp/ip properties on the > appropriate Ethernet device). > > If all of this fails, log in to your ipcop box (try ssh, or directly via > the console aka keyboard :) and issue a reboot command. > > Also, make sure that there is no other device on the LAN with the same > IP address. > > Oh, and finally, check all the cabling. Physical issues can cause > sleepless nights if you don't look for them. > > >> Suggestions anyone? >> >> - >> Mitchell When you say that you connected a machine into the green nic, are you going directly from one computer to the ipcop green interface with a single network cable? if so, that cable will have to be a cross over cable. If you have a network hub or switch in between then you use straight through network cables (if you look at the coloring of the 8 wires inside the connector, on a straight cable, they will all be in the same order, but on a cross-over cable, 4 of them will be switched
Hope this helps Darcy _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
