Hi Martin, To clarify, I am talking about a minimal set up of a school server. Just burning the image on a computer that has two network cards installed, and following the instructions on the school server wiki page to change the domain name and register an ejabberd admin account.
I am then using a simple access point device like a D-Link 2100AP, set to get an IP address from a DHCP server, plugged in to the second network card. With this simple configuration, I have found that it then works without any more changes to any config files etc. My question is, with a particular type of AP that I am required to use, which uses a fixed IP, what config changes do I need to make in the XS? The AP cannot be set to get an IP address from the XS. Is this clear enough? David Leeming OLPC Coordinator, SPC and Technical Advisor, People First Network Honiara, Solomon Islands -----Original Message----- From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 10:18 a.m. To: David Leeming Cc: server-devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] AP with fixed IP address 2008/8/20 David Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am setting up a server using a outdoor access point from Rural Link > (www.rurallink.co.nz) at our Patukae OLPC trial school site in Solomon > Islands. It's a type that can't get an IP address from a DHCP server and on > the LAN side needs to be fixed. Jerry's answer is correct. Edit ifcfg-eth0 > Normally I have found, when setting up the XS, that if I attach a simple AP > to a second NIC using eth1, with DHCP, there is no additional configuration > required. It works by default. That sounds wrong. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you've done but - eth0 is the WAN address. Attaching something to eth1 does not solve anything unless you've got eth0 and eth1 mixed up... - On the LAN side (eth1) don't let the AP act as a router or give DHCP leases. Set it to be a vanilla AP, no DHCP, routing or NAT'ting. It is up to the XS to do routing, NAT'ting, handing out DHCP leases and providing DNS services. > In the case of my Rural Link access point, I need to fix an IP address > within the range given by the server - which presumably it also uses to > allocate addresses to the XOs. So you are talking about 2 XSs and want one of the servers to be 'downstream' of the other? That'll need a bit of routing glue methinks. Tell us more about the network topology you're setting up... cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
