December 13, 200817 yr I know this is more just a networking question, but I need some help configuring my network so that my Unraid server gets an IP assigned to it. My network: Airport Extreme Base station functioning as a router, with a PC plugged into one of it's ports Configured for wireless connectivity to an Airport Express which is functioning in another room as a bridge (relay). This Airport Express is on the network and is plugged into a Linksys SD5000 switch. The Linksys switch is plugged into another PC, and also the unraid server is patched into it. I can get the PC that's plugged into the switch to get an Ip address from the router, but when I boot the unraid server and run ifconfig it still shows as a non-network ip address (127.0.0.1). Also, if config shows both TX and RX packets as 8 instead of 0, indicating it's not communicating. Finally, I ran Putty and it can't connect either, even when I type in 127.0.0.1, let alone //tower How can I get unraid an Ip address from the router or configure my Airport Extreme router to provide the unraid server one. The unraid server is using a D-link gigabit ethernet adapter and when I run ethtool eth0 it shows as being connected. Any advise would be greatly appreciated!!
December 14, 200817 yr Author Troubleshooting further, I actually plugged the unraid server directly into the Airport Extreme router and still using ifconfig only received an ip address of 127.0.0.1 instead of a 192.168.1.x one like the rest of the PCs on my network. What am I missing here? THe server boots fine and it sees the network card via the ethtool eth0 command.
December 14, 200817 yr Author While unraid plugged into router directly, I assigned a static IP to it and it works now. I can get to //tower console Now have to try it back attached to the switch downstairs
December 14, 200817 yr You are under the mistaken impression you are "assigned" an address of 127.0.0.1. You are not assigned it at all, it is an alias for your own local node on the network. In other words, to ping yourself, you can ping 127.0.0.1. To telnet to yourself, you can type telnet 127.0.0.1. Glad you are now on the LAN. Apparently, you do not have a DHCP server on the part of the network you were attempting to use, or it would have assigned you an IP address. Joe L.
December 14, 200817 yr Author Yes. thanks. I statically assigned IPs by MAC addresses and now all is well. I also had to edit the network.cfg file on the unraid flash disk.
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