Hi, Can anyone shed any light on this? Yesterday afternoon I was logged into my WMT Webserver simulation (see http://www.hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/Pi_Router/). My system was working as I described at the end of the thread 'Using a Raspberry Pi as a Network Router'. I was about to set up a DNS Server on the Pi so I tried to get to the Raspberry Pi Forums, where a useful suggestion had been made (see https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php? f=36&t=215608&p=1332047#p1332067). Chromium gave an error saying that the site was either down or had too much traffic. I then went to my normal desktop PC and got the same result. Other sites seemed OK and I could get to raspberrypi.org using my phone to connect to the Home Router via WiFi and also via the 4G connection.
To cut a long story short, after multiple experiments and conversations with my ISP, I was told that the Ethernet cable (shared with the Pi through a switch was faulty. This, despite the fact that I could get to the Home Router admin page through this 'faulty' cable! Today, everything is working, but I haven't connected the Pi to the network yet (the first thing I did yesterday was to remove it, with no effect). Can anyone think of any reason for this event? Is it possible that the Pi caused this? Does Cat 5 stop carrying Ethernet packets in hot weather :-) This last question is only partially serious, but the cable does run around the outside of the house. In case the Pi config is the problem, I've put the latest config files at http://www.hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/Pi_Router/. I'd rather not deploy this if it is likely to take out the PoS machines at the WMT on a hot day or whatever!!!! -- Terry Coles -- 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
