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Installation issues / Re: Linux MCE kills my adsl connection

« on: October 14, 2007, 12:19:24 pm »

This is not a general Linux problem. You can configure a linux box to act as a dsl router, but usually no distribution does this by default without manually configuring that. So I wonder what this LinuxMCE thing does by default. LinuxMCE behaves very dominant by default, enables dhcpd without asking, messes around with the dsl modem without asking, all not very nice things that can mess up the whole network.

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Installation issues / Re: Linux MCE kills my adsl connection

« on: October 14, 2007, 01:57:32 am »

Yes, I tried that, and there are no connection problems then anymore. But I don't want to keep it that way, because I'll have to do too many changes in my network to get anything else working again with that changed configuration.

I just wonder what the LinuxMCE is doing to the DSL modem to create this problems.

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Installation issues / Re: Linux MCE kills my adsl connection

« on: October 14, 2007, 01:27:37 am »

The Gateway is 192.168.0.1

The LinuxMCE box gets the 192.168.0.109 from the DHCP server of the Linksys router.

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Installation issues / Re: Linux MCE kills my adsl connection

« on: October 14, 2007, 12:37:50 am »

Just a quick drawing, but it should contain any relevant information. Nothing that I did not mention earlier in this thread:

http://www.funlynx.de/~borkert/setup.png

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Installation issues / Re: Linux MCE kills my adsl connection

« on: October 14, 2007, 12:02:07 am »

I just logged onto the machine and turned the dhcpd off, then plugged the network cable back in, and after a few seconds all the other machines in the network lost the internet connection again. I unplugged the network cable quickly, then everything went back to normal. So it's not the dhcpd that causes the problems.

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Installation issues / Re: Linux MCE kills my adsl connection

« on: October 10, 2007, 02:41:36 pm »

I don't want to turn the DHCP in the Linksys off, because the LinuxMCE will just be a media player thats on for some hours every day, but I need the DHCP server to be on day and night. So, how do I turn off the DHCP server of the LinuxMCE? I can't remebert that the setup asked me about that, it's not very nice to enable a DHCP server without asking...

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Installation issues / Re: Linux MCE kills my adsl connection

« on: October 10, 2007, 11:53:44 am »

Can you explain in detail how your Core/Linksys/network are laid out? what connected to what etc etc would help figure this out I think.

I already mentioned that in the first posting. I do have a Linksys WRTG54G, the WAN Port of that router is connected to the rest of my network. The DSL modem is not directly connected to the Linksys WAN Port, ist just connected to my switched network and gets to the WAN port via some switches. So it is definitely possible for the LinuxMCE to have ethernet access to the DSL modem and the WAN port of the Linksys router. I never had any problems with that configuration before, there is a DHCP server running on the Linksys router, it never interfered anyhow. I don't want to LinuxMCE to act as a DHCP server in the network. I thought LinuxMCE might be so clever not to turn on any dhcp server as it got its own ip from another dhcp server at startup.

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Installation issues / Re: Linux MCE kills my adsl connection

« on: October 10, 2007, 09:39:16 am »

I don't think that it's a problem with flicker. I can download gigabytes, having bittorrent running, etc. This never caused any disconnect. LinuxMCE is not just causing diconnects, it completely prevents my dsl router from establishing any connection. When I tell the Linksys router to bring up the connection, it takes some minutes, then it tells me that it could not get an ip address from the pppoe peer. I think that the LinuxMCE tries to use the dsl modem for whatever and interferes with the communication between the router and the modem. I'll do some changes in my network and connect the dsl modem directly to the routers wan port, so that the LinuxMCE has no access to it. I think this will solve to problem, but I'm still curious what the LinuxMCE tries to do.

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Installation issues / Linux MCE kills my adsl connection

« on: October 09, 2007, 07:59:24 pm »

Hi,

I just installed Linux MCE 0704. As I started installing I noticed repeated disconnectes of my adsl connection. When the system was fully installed and booted, my Linksys Router was unable to establish an adsl connection. As soon as I plugged the network cable out of the Linux MCE machine, the problems were all gone.

The Linux MCE System is in the same ethernet segment as the dsl modem and the wan port of the Linksys router. Does Linux MCE somehow try to talk to the dsl modem?

Regards,

Raoul