From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 20 21:55:33 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E30916A95C for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:55:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F9C13C481 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:55:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out1.internal (unknown [10.202.2.149]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30641BB8AA; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:56:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by out1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:56:39 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: kkghCMLZMGDQGWhPBFkVjAFE8NhKaIO53HQgpcG7T0ow 1172008598 Received: from [10.1.10.136] (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76FF129276; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:56:38 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <5800.57941.qm@web62206.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <5800.57941.qm@web62206.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jeffrey Goldberg Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:55:23 -0600 To: Drew Jenkins X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Do I Surf To My Server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:55:33 -0000 On Feb 19, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Drew Jenkins wrote: > From: Jeffrey Goldberg > >> Can you tell us more about your home set-up? Presumably you have >> some sort of router doing NAT and DHCP? Tell us about it. > > I had, but perhaps in a different thread, so forgive me for not > putting it here before. I have DHCP, a satellite dish to which both > computers are linked. Drew, I did see that earlier message, but it's not the information I'm seeking. You say that both computers are linked to a satellite dish, but I'm asking for information about what is between your computers and the dish. You should have ethernet cables running from each computer to some sort of box. Can you describe that box for us? For the moment (or for the rest of this message, I will refer to it as Box R). Also another point of confusion is that we may be talking about two different DHCP servers. One of them is at your ISPs offices and assigns an IP address (and other stuff) to your home (actually to Box R). It will assign a public IP address like 67.46.93.3 as a non- arbitrary example. The other one (the one that I'm interested in) is on your premises and assigns IP addresses to the two machines. It is what I think Box R is. It will assign addresses like 192.168.1.100 and 192.168.1.101. This Box R is what is giving your server an IP address. And that address may change. You need to give your server a fixed IP address, say 192.168.1.6. This can be done using the sysinstall GUI for network set up. But here is the hitch. You don't want it to have the same IP address as something that Box R might assign. This is why I want you to look at the DHCP configuration on Box R. Maybe Box R gives out IP addresses (DHCP pool) in the range 192.168.1.100-199, or maybe some other range. The IP address that you pick for your server should be on the local net, but not in the DHCP pool. I need more information about box R to be able to tell you how to log on to it. On your local network it probably (but not necessarily) has the IP address 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 all depending on its default settings. Try pointing a web browser (from one of your two machines) to either of those addresses and see if you get anything. When you get the right address you should be prompted for a username and password. We'll need to know more about the Box R to know what the password is, but a good first guess is always Username: admin, Password: admin. (of course once you do get into Box R change the password to something else). Please keep in mind that all of this is just diagnostic. This information is not guaranteed to lead me to a solution. But it will help in understanding your network. > If ifconfig isn't the way to do that, could you specify how? > sysinstall is a GUI, so it'll just ask me a question, or I'll have > to look on a chart to find what I need, right? Easy, right? ifconfig (or the GUI sysinstall) will be the way to set the IP address of your server. Nothing that I've said contradicts any of the other advice you've received here. But to pick the right IP address it is good to know what Box R's DHCP range is. Also, later on, it may be that some configuring of Box R will be needed for what you are trying to do. So the advice that you are getting is multi-pronged. So far most of the advice you've had has been in the form of "do X and report back here so that we know more about your network". Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/