Topic: Server and Gateway Mode Problems

[paul]

I have been running an SME 5.6 box for a while in Server only mode sat behind a ISDN router with built in firewalling, I have now got ADSL and tried to run the SME as a server and gateway but am getting absolutely nothing to work. (It works in server only mode with the ADSL)

I cannot see the SME box on my internal network nor can I see it on the web serving up the pages it used to.

so what's gone wrong???

I am using a Static IP address which hasn't changed since it was working, the only thing I am a bit unsure of is the Local network settings, what should I set the SME box's Internal network address and subnet to??

Help gratefully appreciated

Paul

[Bill Talcott]

paul wrote:
>
> I cannot see the SME box on my internal network nor can I see
> it on the web serving up the pages it used to.
>
> so what's gone wrong???
>
> I am using a Static IP address which hasn't changed since it
> was working, the only thing I am a bit unsure of is the Local
> network settings, what should I set the SME box's Internal
> network address and subnet to??

My first guess is that you have the NICs swapped, since everything works in server mode, but nothing in server-gateway. I have no firsthand experience, but I'd *guess* that the "server-only" interface would become the internal interface, and the added NIC would become the external interface (since "server-only" is meant for a LAN, and completely open). The external NIC gets your static public IP, and the internal NIC gets whatever LAN IP/range you choose to use.

[paul]

thanks bill,

I have tried the option to test the internet connection of the Server from the Admin page and it can connect to the Mitel Servers, therefore I am assuming I have everything connected up correctly

But I still can't see the webpage or see the server from my network

Paul

[Bill Talcott]

Can you ping it? This will let you make sure that it's actually working, even if all the services aren't (http, smb, etc.). Do you have your LAN set up properly (everything in the same workgroup/domain)? Can you access any other services on the SME?

[paul]

I am a relative newbie to all of this, so here is a bit more detail on my setup.

I have an ADSL router with 8 external static IP addreses (5 available to user), the router provides the internal LAN with IP addresses by DHCP. There is no domain or workgroup configured on the router , I don't have control of the router settings as it is supplied by the company I work for as part of there IT package.

I am connecting the SME server to the router and have given it one of the available Static IP addresses (which when it is in Server only mode works perfectly)

When setup as server and gateway I am setting the internal IP address of the Server to be 192.168.1.1 with a subnet of 255.255.255.0 and then setting the SME server up to do DHCP for the rest of the network and giving it a range of values for the DHCP range

The only two questions I am unsure of are
Master DNS Server - what should I put in here, if anything
Proxy server - not aware that my ISP uses a proxy server

The machine I am using has an onboard Reltek Network connection and also a 3Com 3C905B, both NIC's work in Server only mode.

I have tried to ping the SME box in server gateway mode from a workstation and all attempts failed (request timeout)

Any help appreciated

Paul

[Paul Watkin]

Thanks Bill,

This will teach me to check the structured cabling in my house before I blame the SME box in future, dodgy patch cord between the NIC and patch panel has been causing all my problems

Regards

Paul