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Feature requests & roadmap / My Single NIC installation

« on: January 03, 2008, 08:55:13 am »

Here's my single NIC setup:

DSL modem -> WAN port on wireless router -> Gigabit Switch (to other ports in the house) -> Hybrid LMCE

I set it up with 192.168.1.2 external, and 192.168.1.10 as internal. Gateway is my wireless router as 192.168.1.1. I disabled DHCP on wireless router, and enabled on LMCE, but nothing is pulling an ip. Suggestions?

Thanks Snowglyder: I am a bit of a newbie on LMCE still, but I got my installation working Ok with your instructions.
While there are many reasons for people wanting to use a single NIC and Core not as a router mine are the following:

-My core is not allways on, since the whole installation is for my own testing purposes only.
-Keeping the core on all the time would waste a lot of energy (electricity bill has gone up 130% during this decade where I live and also we must remember the environment and not waste energy in wain)
-I have a perfectly vell working switch/router/DHCP/Firewall device before my DSL box, which requires zero maintenance.

Now my system is the following: Zyxel Lan switch/firewall with gateway ip 192.168.1.1, DHCP off and the WAN port to the DSL modem.
Core has DHCP on and external ip 192.168.1.2, internal ip 192.168.1.3 and with single NIC.
DCHP is set up to give ip:s from 192.168.1.5 - 192.168.1.30.

Normal computers, while not booting from Core and acting as Media Directors, have static ip:s from 192.168.1.31 up and with gateway and DNS of  192.168.1.1  .

Works, no probs: I can use my computers as normal workstations and when I want them to act as Media Directors I just boot them from the network....