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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: Paulb on February 18, 2006, 09:25:13 PM

Title: USB Network adpter support / multi homing
Post by: Paulb on February 18, 2006, 09:25:13 PM

Hi.
I have a very economical compaq evo d500 ultraslim. It has 1 built in ethernet card and no expansion slots internally.
I,m trying to get a Netgear FA120 usb ethernet adpter to work, but I can't get it to be seen by the e-smith v7.
To get around this I have edited the etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-e0 file and created a duplicate named ifcfg-eth0:1 and made the appropriate changes to set up a 2nd network, - so far so good, - if I do an 'ifconfig' I can see both interfaces and ping them however, I still cannot use 'server & gateway' mode, it appears to require 2 physical interfaces, which takes me back to my first issue with the USB.  Any ideas would be appreciated, but keep it simple as possible please.
Thanks in advance :pint:

Title: USB Network adpter support / multi homing
Post by: chris burnat on February 19, 2006, 08:10:01 AM

Paul,  Please report this issue to the Bugtracker, if not a bug, no harm done.  You can access the bugtracker by clicking the SME Server 7.0 button on the left of your screen.  You will have to log in, it takes only a few seconds.  Thanks.

Title: USB Network adpter support / multi homing
Post by: CharlieBrady on February 19, 2006, 06:59:16 PM

Quote from: "burnat"

Paul,  Please report this issue to the Bugtracker, if not a bug, no harm done.  

It would need to be a feature request - there's never been any support for USB network devices.

This might be sufficient to get it working:

config set EthernetDriver2 usbnet
config set ExternalIP a.b.c.d
config set GatewayIP a.b.c.1
config set SystemMode servergateway
signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot

Title: USB Network adpter support / multi homing
Post by: Paulb on February 19, 2006, 08:33:13 PM

Hi thanks for the responses.
Burnat, I didn't report it as a bug as I don't think it is, I just wasn't sure if anyone had got it working this way, - but thanks anyway, Do you think it may be a bug?

Cheers Charlie, I shall give it a go this week, time permitting and leave a response as to the level of success I achieve. Question though: Should I delete my multi-homing settings/file that I created, or are your settings in addition to them?

Best regards, back to the black stuff :pint:

Title: USB Network adpter support / multi homing
Post by: Paulb on February 23, 2006, 01:20:13 PM

:pint:
Hi thanks. the list of commands works a treat.
I've learnt something.

Title: USB Network adpter support / multi homing
Post by: CharlieBrady on February 24, 2006, 04:10:41 PM

Quote from: "Paulb"

Question though: Should I delete my multi-homing settings/file that I created, or are your settings in addition to them?

My suggestion was instead of your multi-homing settings, not in addtion to them.