Re: Creating a static ethernet connection, once again

2014-10-11 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2014-10-08 at 10:15 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Turns out that there's an undocumented feature on the HDTV tuner > software. Said software looks for a connection in a particular range > of addresses. Assigning the ethernet configuration an IP address in > that range solves my problem. I

Re: Creating a static ethernet connection, once again

2014-10-08 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 10/07/2014 12:31:48 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 10/07/14 17:58, Tim wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 07 October 2014, Lars E. Pettersson sent: > >> 192.168.10.3 and 198.168.20.5 are on two different networks. > > > > That depends on network configuration (where your netmask is), and > wh

Re: Creating a static ethernet connection, once again

2014-10-07 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 10/07/14 17:58, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 07 October 2014, Lars E. Pettersson sent: 192.168.10.3 and 198.168.20.5 are on two different networks. That depends on network configuration (where your netmask is), and what hardware (if any) is between devices. Yes, but 192.168.10.3 and

Re: Creating a static ethernet connection, once again

2014-10-07 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 07 October 2014, Lars E. Pettersson sent: > 192.168.10.3 and 198.168.20.5 are on two different networks. That depends on network configuration (where your netmask is), and what hardware (if any) is between devices. With a netmask of 255.255.255.0 those are two different net

Re: Creating a static ethernet connection, once again

2014-10-07 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 10/07/14 02:52, Geoffrey Leach wrote: In the /etc/hosts used by each member of my little network, the system to which the tuner is attached is 192.168.10.3, and the tuner itself is 198.168.20.5. I can ping 198.168.20.5, but I have a sinking feeling that what I'm pinging is the ethernet nic,

Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-07 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 10/07/14 02:55, Geoffrey Leach wrote: So, the question is, then, what's the gateway when the target is on the system that's generating the request. Well, then you either use localhost or the name/IP-number of the physical interface on that system, and those are accessible. Lars -- Lars E

Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-06 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 10/06/2014 12:34:42 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 10/06/14 03:17, Tim wrote: > > Just wondering, but would not specifying a gateway prevent most > things > > from accessing outside of a LAN? > > Yes, that's right. If your computer does not have a default gateway, > and > you wants to acce

Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-06 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 10/06/2014 12:30:42 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 10/05/14 23:11, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > Thanks, Lars. Accesses outside the local net is not required. > > OK, then you do not need GATEWAY. > > > Yes, a ping to the IP address responds correctly. > > OK, good! Then your network is setup

Re: Creating a static ethernet connection, once again

2014-10-06 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 10/06/2014 01:41:13 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 10/06/14 01:41, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > To recap. I have an ethernet port that's wired to a HDTV tuner that > converts OTA HDTV to ma4 and streams it down the cable to a program > that collects and stores it. All of this is known to work u

Re: Creating a static ethernet connection, once again

2014-10-06 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 10/06/14 01:41, Geoffrey Leach wrote: To recap. I have an ethernet port that's wired to a HDTV tuner that converts OTA HDTV to ma4 and streams it down the cable to a program that collects and stores it. All of this is known to work under Fedora 17. No so under Fedora 19. FirewallD is stopp

Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-06 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 10/06/14 03:17, Tim wrote: Just wondering, but would not specifying a gateway prevent most things from accessing outside of a LAN? Yes, that's right. If your computer does not have a default gateway, and you wants to access a system not on your network, your system has no idea where to sen

Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-06 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 10/05/14 23:11, Geoffrey Leach wrote: Thanks, Lars. Accesses outside the local net is not required. OK, then you do not need GATEWAY. Yes, a ping to the IP address responds correctly. OK, good! Then your network is setup correctly, and you can actually reach the device. Looking at you

Re: Creating a static ethernet connection, once again

2014-10-06 Thread Mike Wright
10/06/2014 10:37 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: On 10/06/2014 06:47:16 AM, Greg Woods wrote: On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: The ethernet port has a ifcfg script with HWADDR="E8:40:F2:05:DE:1C" BOOTPROTO=none IPADDR="198.168.20.5" but is otherwise as created b

Re: Creating a static ethernet connection, once again

2014-10-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > On 10/06/2014 06:47:16 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > > > Don't you need "BOOTPROTO=static"? > > > Apparently "static" is not a defined value for BOOTPRO, and when an > undefined term is used, it defaults to "none". One of the little bits of > hig

Re: Creating a static ethernet connection, once again

2014-10-06 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 10/06/2014 06:47:16 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Geoffrey Leach > wrote: > > > > > The ethernet port has a ifcfg script with > > HWADDR="E8:40:F2:05:DE:1C" > > BOOTPROTO=none > > IPADDR="198.168.20.5" > > but is otherwise as created by Anaconda. > > > >

Re: Creating a static ethernet connection, once again

2014-10-06 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > The ethernet port has a ifcfg script with > HWADDR="E8:40:F2:05:DE:1C" > BOOTPROTO=none > IPADDR="198.168.20.5" > but is otherwise as created by Anaconda. > Don't you need "BOOTPROTO=static"? --Greg -- users mailing list use

Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-05 Thread Mike Wright
10/05/2014 02:11 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: On 10/05/2014 07:54:40 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: On 10/05/14 03:52, Geoffrey Leach wrote: On 10/04/2014 05:13:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I did not define GATEWAY because there isn't one. In that case you could only connect to computers within

Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-05 Thread Tim
Geoffrey Leach wrote: >> I did not define GATEWAY because there isn't one. Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > In that case you could only connect to computers within the same subnet > as your network interface, apparently 198.168.20.0 in your case. If you > want to connect to other computers outside of

Creating a static ethernet connection, once again

2014-10-05 Thread Geoffrey Leach
Sorry to be a bother, but ... To recap. I have an ethernet port that's wired to a HDTV tuner that converts OTA HDTV to ma4 and streams it down the cable to a program that collects and stores it. All of this is known to work under Fedora 17. No so under Fedora 19. FirewallD is stopped. The eth

Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-05 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 10/05/2014 07:54:40 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 10/05/14 03:52, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > On 10/04/2014 05:13:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > I did not define GATEWAY because there isn't one. > > In that case you could only connect to computers within the same > subnet > as your netwo

Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-05 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 10/04/2014 11:53:30 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: > On 05/10/14 03:52, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > On 10/04/2014 05:13:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> Geoffrey Leach writes: > >> > >>> I have a hard-wired ethernet connection. I'm trying to get Fedora > 19 > >> to work > >>> with it. Firewalld configur

Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-05 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 10/05/14 03:52, Geoffrey Leach wrote: On 10/04/2014 05:13:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I did not define GATEWAY because there isn't one. In that case you could only connect to computers within the same subnet as your network interface, apparently 198.168.20.0 in your case. If you want to

Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Geoffrey Leach writes: On 10/04/2014 05:13:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > My problem is that I can't connect to the device, despite nm-tool > > Define "connect to the device". Define "connect to the device". Conventional Ethernet cable. About 5 feet. And you were saying that something pr

Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-04 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 05/10/14 03:52, Geoffrey Leach wrote: On 10/04/2014 05:13:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Geoffrey Leach writes: I have a hard-wired ethernet connection. I'm trying to get Fedora 19 to work with it. Firewalld configuration has scripts added to open a route to the device. AFAIK, these are

Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/05/14 09:52, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > NETMASK I can do. What's the function of PERFIX? I notice refenences to > $PREFIX in scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, but no definition (as > you observed) I did not define GATEWAY because there isn't one. The system in > question is a record

Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-04 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 10/04/2014 05:13:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Geoffrey Leach writes: > > > I have a hard-wired ethernet connection. I'm trying to get Fedora 19 > to work > > with it. Firewalld configuration has scripts added to open a route > to the > > device. AFAIK, these are correct. The device is kn

Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Geoffrey Leach writes: I have a hard-wired ethernet connection. I'm trying to get Fedora 19 to work with it. Firewalld configuration has scripts added to open a route to the device. AFAIK, these are correct. The device is known to work. Here's the entry in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts NA

Setup for a static ethernet connection

2014-10-04 Thread Geoffrey Leach
I have a hard-wired ethernet connection. I'm trying to get Fedora 19 to work with it. Firewalld configuration has scripts added to open a route to the device. AFAIK, these are correct. The device is known to work. Here's the entry in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts NAME="eno1" DEFROUTE="yes" IPV

Re: Static ethernet connection

2012-01-02 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I'm not sure that the network service is available on Fedora 16, which > is OK, because this works fine as is, along with "ifup eth0". > ONBOOT=yes does not work in my context.  BTW, what is BOOTPROTO=static? The network service is still ava

Re: Static ethernet connection

2012-01-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/03/2012 12:58 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Yes, RMB on the Network Manager icon provides this. I used Reindl's > approach, but I'll have to try it sometime. After my NFS problem is > solved. OK Looking forward to the next installment :-) -- A common mistake that people make when

Re: Static ethernet connection

2012-01-02 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 01/02/2012 05:32:00 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/03/2012 09:22 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > I need to set up an ethernet connection to a device that needs a > static > > IP address. Can anyone point me to doc on how to do this? > > > > Reindl gave you one way > > Another, at least in KD

Re: Static ethernet connection

2012-01-02 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 01/02/2012 05:25:25 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 03.01.2012 02:22, schrieb Geoffrey Leach: > > I need to set up an ethernet connection to a device that needs a > static > > IP address. Can anyone point me to doc on how to do this? > > * disable networkmanager > * write a network-script

Re: Static ethernet connection

2012-01-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/03/2012 09:22 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I need to set up an ethernet connection to a device that needs a static > IP address. Can anyone point me to doc on how to do this? > Reindl gave you one way Another, at least in KDE (I'm sure GNOME has the equivalent), is to open Network Manag

Re: Static ethernet connection

2012-01-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.01.2012 02:22, schrieb Geoffrey Leach: > I need to set up an ethernet connection to a device that needs a static > IP address. Can anyone point me to doc on how to do this? * disable networkmanager * write a network-script as all the years before cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-

Static ethernet connection

2012-01-02 Thread Geoffrey Leach
I need to set up an ethernet connection to a device that needs a static IP address. Can anyone point me to doc on how to do this? Thanks. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guid