Network Bridge Question

[Andy Horn]

Hi all.

I have now replaced my hardware with something that has a little more umph!!

So now what I want do to is run a vLite'd version of Vista on a VM.

My question is when I configure my network interfaces for a bridge do I replace:

This

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1
# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1

With this?

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
address 192.168.1.100
broadcast 192.168.1.255
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
bridge_ports eth0
bridge_fd 9
bridge_hello 2
bridge_maxage 12
bridge_stp off

Thanks in advance

[Ian]

Hi Andy.

Does this page help?

Ian

[Andy Horn]

Hi Ian.

Sorry not really, I am not sure if I need to replace the eth0 with br0 or if I need both.

I did that last week then I could not connect to my server but that might have been something else I fuxered up

Cheers

Andy

[Ian]

You don't need the eth0 when you have the br0. Some routers take a while to "adjust themselves" to such changes so try restarting the router afterwards. Another thing to try is disconnecting and/or restarting any device which might be acting as the master dns for your network.

Try pinging the server via its ip address to see whether it responds.

Any joy?

Ian

[Andy Horn]

No that did not work!!

I have gone back to my original config, my guess is it is dns related.

What I can do:

ping from Vista
ping from Mac
ssh from Mac
vnc from Vista
access all the computers on my network from the gnome desktop on the server.

What I cant do:

Access the server from network/my network places

Both Vista and Mac can see the server but unable to connect to it. (Vista error code:0x80070005 Access is denied.). The Mac just does not want to know.

My resolv.conf file is empty and I dont know how to fix this.

Cheers

Andy

[Ian]

Hi Andy,

Are you sure your "gateway" setting is correct?

From another forum I note issuing the following command solved the resolv.conf file issue for them:

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sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

Worth a try.

Ian.

[Andy Horn]

Hi Ian

Almost certain my gateway/router? settings are correct.

I have reinstalled and I am just going to leave it as is for the time been until I get more confident with Ubuntu

I was tempted to buy WHS 2011 as it is less than 40 quid at the moment, but I would much rather spend the money on hardware i.e a DVB S2 card.

Thanks

Andy