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

[Mike Goodman]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 17 Aug 2007, Mike Goodman wrote:
>> Chris Davies MBCS wrote:
>>> Mike Goodman wrote:
>>>> 5. Configure the Router to have a route to 192.168.1.0/24 

This (router) offers several empty boxes in the Static Routes section, 
including "Route Name" which I suppose is not critical, "Private" and 
"Active" checkboxes (I tried both together, then just active on its 
own), then comes the important bit:

Destination IP Address - I have eth0 (external) at 192,168.0.1 and eth1 
at 192.168.48.1 (internal) on the server box. Tried both, as well as 
192.168.48.0 - which should I have used?

Subnet Mask - the only one I can get! 255.255.255.0

Gateway IP Address - 192.168.48.1 or 192.168.0.1?

Lastly, a box to enter "Metric" which should be an integer from 2 to 15 
- I used 2.

I have a strong suspicion /etc/resolv.conf on the workstation is going 
to have some bearing on this, too.

>>
> Mike, I've been away and missed most of this thread, so I don't know what 
> you've already tried.
> 
> Pinging a fqdn, though.  This relies on two things.  First, you need 
> your /etc/hosts file to reflect all the boxes on the lan if you want to be 
> able to reach them by name.  
Tried putting various hosts into /etc/hosts on both server and 
workstation but until I loaded ipqmasq onto the server, couldn't ping 
beyond the server - oddly enough, I could get its external address, 
192.168.0.1, but couldn't ping the router or anything beyond the server 
at all. With ipqmasq installed, I could ping IP addresses anywhere but . . .

> For addresses outside your lan you need dns 
>> server IPs entered onto the router, so that it knows where to look.  What 
>> router is it?
>> 

  . . . Netgear DG834 and the workstation couldn't ping any fqdn other 
than the router (no other hosts within the LAN). There are two DNS 
server IPs as supplied by my ISP, Zen, on the DG834.

However, Anne, you may have put your finger on it - if I'm using the 
server as the router for the LAN, shouldn't those (Zen) addresses be 
entered as the nameserver addresses in /etc/resolv.conf on the 
workstation, rather than 192.168.48.1 (or 0.1)? Or should it be three 
from the four? Should I be using the server's fqdn, or the LAN's domain 
name, as a separate search line in there, too?

Whatever happens, I need some way for the workstation's browsers to find 
web sites and for an email client to resolve email comms. I have Ubuntu 
on this workstation and Xubuntu on the laptop, so everything's Debian based.

The server seems to be working (it's only got a base system in there 
just now, none of the server software for the planned uses) insofar as 
pinging, apt-get install and apt-get update are concerned, and in 
talking to the (only) workstation.

So it's a case of getting the router's Static Routes settings correct 
and the workstation's networking configurations set correctly - I think??

The current situation is router reset to factory defaults and 
workstation backed up then OS reinstalled and configured. Server 
switched off to allow me to get back in touch. That's after being 
offline since Friday, early evening, back on this morning with a backlog 
of work to do. So as far as I can judge, the server is good but the 
other stuff will need re-setting for my aim of router -> 
web/file/printer server -> LAN to come into being. You have a clean 
sheet for new ideas!

Any suggestions? Not sure if "I'm off for two weeks" means Chris Davies 
is away on holiday, or he's taking a couple of weeks off work and 
looking for a distraction or two whilst chilling out? :o)

Best, and thanks for the help so far,

Mike