Topic: intallation question

[Jan Haud'huyze]

Hi,

We have a link with our accountant through an ISDN router which is connected to subnet 172.31.55.168 netmask 255.255.255.248.

We'd like to have ADSL access to the internet.

I thought I'd setup a server/gateway with 2 nics one for the local subnet which also has the ISDN router and one connected to the ADSL modem.

questions:

I haven't looked in the router setup but I guess the router knows what to send to our accountant. How does the linux gateway know to stay away from it?

I tried to set up the server as DHCP (so it took over part of the isdn router functionality as I cannot use that one in my test set-up). Problem is that I cannot connect with a test pc to the server. I tried both nics - straight cable, cross-over cable. Nothing works. I had set-up the same machine with suse linux the week before and noticed that my nics work. The error message in Win2k is that the cable is not connected.

help very much appreciated

Thank you,

Jan

[Bob Todd]

questions:

I haven't looked in the router setup but I guess the router knows what to send to our accountant. How does the linux gateway know to stay away from it?

Your router is on the "internal" network as far as the SME server is concerned. When you install the SME software you tell it which is "internal" and which is "external" and the "router" - In your case the "router" for the SME box will be the ADSL modem - if you are using the proxy feature on SME then all your clients that connect to the internet through SME will use the ADSL modem.

I tried to set up the server as DHCP (so it took over part of the isdn router functionality as I cannot use that one in my test set-up). Problem is that I cannot connect with a test pc to the server. I tried both nics - straight cable, cross-over cable. Nothing works. I had set-up the same machine with suse linux the week before and noticed that my nics work. The error message in Win2k is that the cable is not connected.

If you are connecting a client pc directly to the SME box you need a crossover cable. If both are plugged into a hub/switch/router then you use straight cable to connect them. If you have used a crossover cable directly to the SME from a Win2k box and it reports the cable isn ot connected then I suspect your SME server hasnt got the correct drivers loaded for the nics. Can you tell us what nics you have installed in the SME server?

[Jan Haud'huyze]

It's a realtek nic - I think the driver should be ok. But I'll check it. I checked the cables but didn't think of the driver.

I'll look into that proxy thing - I selected no proxy in the set-up but marked that nic as external network.

Will give it another shot and post more details

Thank you,

Jan