dlfuller Posted July 23, 2005 Report Share Posted July 23, 2005 DHCP Internet access works fine with Community 10.1 and DHCP on my SMB network. The small network includes Macs and PCs (Windows) with the internet connection through wired ethernet, router (firewall), then a cable modem. The router provides DHCP. I would like to use my 10.1 computer as an occasional SMB server. For that it seems best to switch it to a fixed IP address. SMB sharing and mounting still work well, but I can no longer access the internet from that computer. Is there a simple way around this, maintaining internet access while using a static IP address? It's convenient to access the internet directly on this computer and not have to use one of the others on the network. --Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streeter Posted July 23, 2005 Report Share Posted July 23, 2005 Have a look at the 'simple net setup' howto listed in the pinned topic right at the top of the networking forum. It's title is sharing internet connections, but there is a link to this howto - follow the assigning static addresses link. Good luck! Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 23, 2005 Report Share Posted July 23, 2005 When you allocated the static IP address, did you also allocate DNS Servers for the internet connection and default gateway? I use static through an ethernet firewall, which then goes to an ethernet port on my router which runs the internet connection. My default router is the ethernet firewall, and the DNS servers are from the ISP I use. For you, your default gateway is going to be your router (I'm assuming your wired ethernet is a hub/switch and nothing else). As an example: Static IP 192.168.1.5 Subnet 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway 192.168.1.1 (router) DNS - ISP provided. (I have two) Set your hostname to anything you like, leave search domain and zeroconf fields blank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlfuller Posted July 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Thank you Gentlemen. Your suggestions were right on. The background here is the DNS servers are provided automatically by my ISP (Comcast). Their simple setup is to select DHCP and provide the correct (registered) MAC address for the router. Then everything else is automatic with no more entries required. So I was unaware of DNS addresses. The setup just worked. The howto explained concepts and led to verification in logical steps. And, after I added the gateway and DNS addresses, everything worked fine with my static IP address. There had been no gateway addresses before. The simple part was that the DNS servers were already there in MCC > Network & Internet > Manage connections since I had been successfully using DHCP. All I did was enter my preferred static IP and the missing Gateway addresss and everything just worked -- browsing the internet and LAN serving. In the end, I did opt for a different approach by changing from a Linksys to a Netgear router. Netgear offers "Address Reservation" in their LAN IP setup. You assign an IP address and device name based on a MAC address. If the computer is on the LAN as it would be if you first set it up as DHCP, then most of an entry is already available to be added or edited. Makes it easy. The advantage for me is centralized control at a LAN DHCP server for both DHCP and static IP addresses on the LAN in one place. Thanks again for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alkmie Posted July 30, 2005 Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 Thank you Gentlemen. Your suggestions were right on. The howto explained concepts and led to verification in logical steps. And, after I added the gateway and DNS addresses, everything worked fine with my static IP address. There had been no gateway addresses before. The simple part was that the DNS servers were already there in MCC > Network & Internet > Manage connections since I had been successfully using DHCP. All I did was enter my preferred static IP and the missing Gateway addresss and everything just worked -- browsing the internet and LAN serving. Thanks again for your help. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> im am using mandriva 10.2 LE and when i use mcc to switch ip to static i set the default gateway to my router click apply and for some reason it does not save the router setting?? what file is mcc editting to set the defualt gateway (192.168.0.1 in this case)? ive looked in /etc/sysconfig/networking/eth0 network = 192.168.0.0 broadcasts = 192.168.0.225 any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted July 30, 2005 Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 what file is mcc editting to set the defualt gateway (192.168.0.1 in this case)? ive looked in /etc/sysconfig/networking/eth0 You were close. It's the /etc/sysconfig/network file. Example entries: HOSTNAME=MY.HOSTNAME NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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