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fearingsept

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Internet connection lost after setting up thin client
« on: October 02, 2007, 10:33:45 pm »
So I have been testing LMCE for a few weeks now and so far it is working out pretty well. That is except when I set up a thin client. I can get the thin client to load with minimal effort and it works nicely. But soon after I loose internet connection from both the client and the core. I remember reading somewhere that some people prefer using 2 Ethernet cards when using thin clients. I assume one as a gateway and the other to manage the clients. I don’t know if that has anything to do with my problem or not. As it seems I am unable to even log into my router at this point. I get a timed out error.
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Re: Internet connection lost after setting up thin client
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2007, 10:41:18 pm »
That could be related to a single NIC setup I guess.  Can you paste the output of the following command (executed on the core) in here the next time that happens?
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Re: Internet connection lost after setting up thin client
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2007, 10:56:35 pm »
Here is the output:

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eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:56:D8:3E:DB
          inet addr:192.168.80.241  Bcast:192.168.80.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20d:56ff:fed8:3edb/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1571 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:22518 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:564282 (551.0 KiB)  TX bytes:1487627 (1.4 MiB)
          Base address:0xdec0 Memory:fcfe0000-fd000000

eth0:0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:56:D8:3E:DB
          inet addr:192.168.80.1  Bcast:192.168.80.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Base address:0xdec0 Memory:fcfe0000-fd000000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:21215 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:21215 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:3344162 (3.1 MiB)  TX bytes:3344162 (3.1 MiB)
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Re: Internet connection lost after setting up thin client
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2007, 11:10:04 pm »
is the rest of your network on a 192.168.80.X? do you have eth0 set to use dhcp to configure its network settings or did you set them manually?
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Re: Internet connection lost after setting up thin client
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2007, 11:10:26 pm »
Looks to me like the external network card refreshed it's IP# using DHCP and got a new one from the virtual internal network interface's DHCP server. 

It's a typical single NIC setup problem I reckon.  Either use two NICs as it was intended or configure the external NIC manually.
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Re: Internet connection lost after setting up thin client
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2007, 11:15:48 pm »
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Is the rest of your network on a 192.168.80.X? do you have eth0 set to use dhcp to configure its network settings or did you set them manually?

It is set up to use DHCP to configure the network.

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It's a typical single NIC setup problem I reckon.  Either use two NICs as it was intended or configure the external NIC manually.

Being that I am somewhat inexperienced with setting up network protocol are there any common steps I could use to get my Internet back and just forget the thin client for now?
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Re: Internet connection lost after setting up thin client
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2007, 11:22:15 pm »
I think you just need to adjust some settings in the web admin under Advanced>Network>Network Settings and configure eth0 manually with a static IP number etc.
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