Raspbian lite might be a good choice?
On 19/06/18 13:41, Terry Coles wrote: > On Tuesday, 19 June 2018 12:00:42 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: >> You've assembled a system of software parts and it doesn't work. >> Debugging it will be hard because of the possible interactions between >> the parts that are unknown. I'd try to strip it back to the minimal and >> get that working, e.g. same hardware, eth1 configured by DHCP, as now, >> eth0 manual configuration, customer-mobile (another Pi?) manual too. >> Ping from pi-3 to Internet, and then the pi-mobile to each of the >> interfaces along the route to the Internet. > Unfortunately, I'm fresh out of Pis but I may be able to cobble together > something using a mobile phone or laptop connected by Ethernet instead of via > the Belkin Router. I was already thinking of substituting the Belkin Router > with another one, if I can find a suitable device, but your suggestion would > remove yet another variable. > > I was also thinking of starting again from scratch with a clean installation > of Raspbian and building the RPi Router from there, before ever attempting > something like NoDogSplash. At least then I would know that I haven't > introduced some incompatibility along the way. > >> Given `address', ... > I'm sorry, I don't understand that comment. > >> `netmask', `network' and `broadcast' are redundant here as they're >> corresponding values that can be simply computed. > OK. I was simply following the tutorial that I had found. > >> It's a gateway from the perspective of that interface, not how others >> see that interface as this isn't being used to configure those others. >> See interfaces(5) for that system and >> https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.network-config.html#sect.int >> erface-ethernet I don't think you want it at all, and that suggests the >> http://qcktech.blogspot.com/2012/08/raspberry-pi-as-router.html you >> reference may have other problems. > OK. I'll look into that. > >> These are the commands that one version of ifup(8) and friends run from >> package ifupdown's `inet.defn' so you can see how `gateway' is used. > OK. I'll look into that too. > > One final question. If I open a default copy of /etc/network/interface, it > says that the file is intended to be used with dhcpcd.conf. Do I still need > to define the static IP address of eth0 in both places or just here? > > -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-07-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:[email protected] / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
