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Hi. I'm wondering why you need the Static IP. Neo>>Ok the situation is that the internet provider uses WiMax to distribute the signal and then this signal is received by a Radio receiver that has a static ip address. Now in windows /Mac for me to have an internet connection I have to assign a static Ip to the machine with the dns settings as well. This leads me to think that the same information is applied to the ifcfg-eth0-local file as specified on the wiki.>>Rueben Does the XS have one or two network cards?>>Neo one network card for the WAN/eth0 and I do have Active antenna plugged in on the usb port and the XO's do connect to the server, but not the internet (DNS)>>Reuben Will the XS act as a gateway to the Internet?>>Neo Yes . When I ping www.google.com on the server with the /etc/resolv.conf edited with the remote DNS server ip address ie 10.50.211.5 then I do recieve packets back . I also installed the lynx text browser on the server to browse the internet form the XS and the pages do load. When I do the same on the connected XO I get unknown host but when I insert the google IP address in the address bar of the XO the google page loads. Thanks, Reuben Grape Projects IT wrote: > Hi Martin, > I have never setup a static address before and therefore have never had this issue before. Below is the step-by-step configuration that I followed > and I am having a problem with the DNS as the XO's do not connect to the Internet > I downloaded the XS 0.5.2 image and followed the instructions > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software. > 1.I initially ran the script /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/domainconfig katane.org with katane.org being the hostname > 2.I also changed the HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain to > HOSTNAME=schoolserver.katane.org > Our internet has a static IP address therefore I copied > /usr/share/doc/xs-config-*/ifcfg-eth0-local.example to > /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/ifcfg-eth0-local and edited the file with the following: > IPADDR=10.50.211.15 > IPV6ADDR=no > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > NETWORK=10.50.211.0 > BROADCAST=10.50.211.255 > GATEWAY=10.50.211.5 > I also edited the /etc/resolv.conf to resolve the DNS nameserver as follows: > search katane.org > nameservers 10.50.211.5 > 3. Restarted the machine > 4. I then started the ejabberd service at runlevels 345 > 5. Restarted the machine " shutdown -r now" > 6. After reboot I pinged www.google.com and I got reply packets which meant that I had connection to the internet > 7. now the problem is that when I check the ejabberd status "ejabberdctl status" I get an error RPC failed on the node ejabb...@schoolserver: nodedown > so I went back to my /etc/resolv.conf file and edited the nameserver back > to 172.18.0.1 and restarted ejabberd and this executed with no errors. But > now the server does not resolve the DNS addresses cause when I ping www.google.com I get the error unknown host www.google.com > 8.Another thing is that the XO does not connect to the internet under all > scenarios but it connects to the schoolserver as I get to the "who are you?" page > Now what do I need to do to make this work as I am using Active Antenna to > connect the XO's to the Server > Regards > Neo Masilo > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- Reuben K. Caron Country Support Engineer One Laptop per Child Mobile: +1-617-230-3893 reu...@laptop.org Deployments Support <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments_Support> Neo Masilo Grape Projects (Pty)Ltd PO Box 394 Pimville 1808 South Africa 4238 Khomo Street Pimville 1808, South Africa Tel +27 11 933 4961 Mobile +27 73 656 0707 email: i...@grapeprojects.com web:www.grapeprojects.com _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel