[Server-devel] Setting up XS-0.5 for testing
(Apologies as I haven't done extensive archive/wiki searching and i'm also a bit tired - Please point to RTFM) I'm looking at setting up a simple test rig for playing with the school server, and I have the following hardware for use: * An XO * A generic laptop with a wired a wireless interface and XS-0.5 installed * A generic wireless AP * (A NATTed dhcp'd network with external connectivity) Can I setup a test rig with that hardware - how would you go about it? With a basic XS install, the server seemed to connect to the external network fine, and also created a school-mesh-0 wireless network which was visible from my mac - but not seemingly from the XO. So the next thing I tried was connecting the WAP to the XS ethernet interface. However, on investigation I noticed that dhcpd was not running (and was asking for network_config and domain_config to be run). So I ensured network_config and domain_config were sorted and rebooted. After a reboot dhpcd started up - however, seemingly not giving out leases on the wired interface. I read that using xs-swapnics could sort this out for me - but I don't think it will work because I only have eth0. I can't see in the config where the interface to bind dhcpd and associated services to is specified - can anyone give me any pointers? cheers -- Dan Poltawski signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Setting up XS-0.5 for testing
2008/11/18 Dan Poltawski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm looking at setting up a simple test rig for playing with the school server, and I have the following hardware for use: * An XO * A generic laptop with a wired a wireless interface and XS-0.5 installed * A generic wireless AP * (A NATTed dhcp'd network with external connectivity) Can I setup a test rig with that hardware - how would you go about it? You are on the right track - the current XS configuration doesn't know what to do with the wireless interface the machine has, so it'll probably ignore it. And tyou can use xs-swapnics even on a single-nic machine, to set the only nic to be eth1. Some of it is documented in the README (README.networking perhaps) for the xs-config package. With a basic XS install, the server seemed to connect to the external network fine, and also created a school-mesh-0 wireless network which was visible from my mac - but not seemingly from the XO. school-mesh-0 probably came from the XO though, when it attempts to setup a mesh connection ot'll send frames that your machine may have interpreted erroneously as an AP. So the next thing I tried was connecting the WAP to the XS ethernet interface. However, on investigation I noticed that dhcpd was not running (and was asking for network_config and domain_config to be run). So I ensured network_config and domain_config were sorted and rebooted. Good step, combine with xs-swapnics and you'll be on the right track I think ... hope that helps! m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Setting up XS-0.5 for testing
Martin Langhoff wrote: 2008/11/18 Dan Poltawski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm looking at setting up a simple test rig for playing with the school server, and I have the following hardware for use: * An XO * A generic laptop with a wired a wireless interface and XS-0.5 installed * A generic wireless AP * (A NATTed dhcp'd network with external connectivity) Can I setup a test rig with that hardware - how would you go about it? You are on the right track - the current XS configuration doesn't know what to do with the wireless interface the machine has, so it'll probably ignore it. And tyou can use xs-swapnics even on a single-nic machine, to set the only nic to be eth1. Some of it is documented in the README (README.networking perhaps) for the xs-config package. With a basic XS install, the server seemed to connect to the external network fine, and also created a school-mesh-0 wireless network which was visible from my mac - but not seemingly from the XO. school-mesh-0 probably came from the XO though, when it attempts to setup a mesh connection ot'll send frames that your machine may have interpreted erroneously as an AP. So the next thing I tried was connecting the WAP to the XS ethernet interface. However, on investigation I noticed that dhcpd was not running (and was asking for network_config and domain_config to be run). So I ensured network_config and domain_config were sorted and rebooted. Good step, combine with xs-swapnics and you'll be on the right track I think That is what I saw earlier on firstboot, named assumes a default name and starts up without /etc/sysconfig/xs_domain_name, while dhcpd doesn't start because /etc/sysconfig/xs_domain_name is not set. Shouldn't dhcpd be setup with the same default server domain and role for firstboot? Jerry ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
