[Wylug-help] Help needed setting up server and LAN

[Chris Davies MBCS]

Mike Goodman wrote:
> 5. Configure the Router to have a route to 192.168.1.0/24 // Broken.

> The router (coming out in sympathy with me, I presume ;o) ) doesn't
> understand this syntax. I can get a specific IP address to a specific IP 
> address, but not to a range.

At the risk of letting you stuff you already know, don't get confused between 
port forwarding and routing.

Port forwarding lets you forward inbound connections on a specific port (e.g. 
  80 for web traffic) to a specific internal IP address. Routing tells the 
Netgear where to send packets based on their destination network address.

The terminology 192.168.1.0/24 is shorthand for "the network 192.168.1.0 with 
a 24-bit netmask, i.e. 255.255.255.0". On a Netgear DG814 configuration of 
such routes can be found under Advanced - Static Routes 
(http://192.168.1.0/staticroutes.htm).


>> 6. Install something like "dhcp3-server" and configure 
>> /etc/dhpc3/dhcpd.conf (more on that later) 

> eerrmm - shouldn't I have done this earlier? Now the connection's
> broken, it won't download.

Your interfaces should be defined as static, so the presence (or absence) or a 
DHCP Server is moot - as long as the interface is up, of course.


>> Networks are defined in /etc/network/interfaces (see "man 
>> interfaces"), e.g.

> Hmm. Error message says can't read /etc/network/interfaces at every
> attempt to make a connection and at shutdown. At boot, there's a message 
> which flies by, to the effect that no network facilities are set up so 
> failed. As always, this must be fixable - but where to start?


Log in as root and try this:

ifdown eth0		# Don't worry if it says it's already down
ifup eth0		# This should "just work" silently

You should then have an interface defined for eth0, i.e. "ifconfig eth0" 
should show you an IP address, etc.

Chris