I am having some difficulty setting up a
lan using only static ip addresses. I have
two computers they are almost identical.
One running Mandrake MNF the other running
Mandrake 10.0 as a file server. the MNF
box has 2 nic's one connecting to my cable
modem and has connection. at the
installation screen it finds 2 nic's and
wants to set them up. The first my wan
connection dhcp client. The second is my
lan. Im guessing the instalation assumes i
already have a network running a dhcp
server. It wants to obtain the ip address.
I want it to serve as the dhcp server.
There is almost no way to enable it from
the computer at all. You must connect to
the MNF from another computer using a web
interface at
https://localhost.localdomain:8443/
unfortuantely if it does not have an ip
address i cannot connect to it because it
is not actually connected to the network.
I tried to set the MNF's ip as 192.168.8.1
and the server which i will use to try to
configure the MNF from to 192.168.8.2 both
with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and
when it did not work tried a different
subnet mask of 127.0.0.1. Both times and
all the other configurations i tried it
still did not work.
Maybe i am putting in the wrong ip
addresses but i dont see how. I tried
connecting them using a crossover cable at
first and now i am trying to connect them
using a linksys hub not router.
Any advise or suggestions would be
appreciated and by all means treat me like
an idiot please.
I am 22 years old, been building computers
for 14 and been playing around with linux
for about 6 and i finally think i know
about linux to use it everyday.