Hi Jerry, I am just using the XS "out of the box". All settings are as default. My question concerns the effect of fixing an IP address for the AP, which should still work, but is there any possible effect on the XOs that will connect to it, through IP address conflicts that might occur?
To give my context, I am involved in trial deployments in the Pacific islands region, and although I am obviously not up to speed as you guys are on the XS and network configuration for Linux systems, I need to know how to have a reliable system with no nasty surprises as I will be the one that discovers it in the middle of a teacher training session during an OLPC trials deployment when things go weird! I am trying to get this information before I head out in a couple of days into a remote area of Solomon Islands where the said access point CPE device awaits me, and if I don't have full information it could be a partly wasted trip! David Leeming OLPC Coordinator, SPC and Technical Advisor, People First Network Honiara, Solomon Islands -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Vonau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 9:35 a.m. To: David Leeming Cc: XS Devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] AP with fixed IP address David Leeming wrote: > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > Can anyone let me know how best to do this. > > > > David Leeming > > Technical Advisor, People First Network > > P.O. Box 652, Honiara, Solomon Islands, South Pacific > Edit the ifcfg-eth(?) file, for the interface that is connected to the AP, that lives in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ From: BOOTPROTO='dhcp' To: BOOTPROTO='none' BROADCAST='10.3.0.255' <-- IPADDR='10.3.0.10' <-- adjust these to the xs layout NETMASK='255.255.255.0' <-- NETWORK='10.3.0.0' <-- The exact numbers above would depend on what else is set up on the box. Could a get a better description of your intended layout, perhaps could you post the output of "ip route ls" of your current layout. Thanks, Jerry _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel