I am running 6.2.0 beta19. Any attempt to reach the web gui times out, whether it be ip or tower. Looking on my router's page, I can see that one of the DHCP clients is called "Tower" and has the same ip that the server is reporting, so I assume that is fine. Still I cannot even ping the system over the network, I get, seemingly randomly either time outs or "Destination host unreachable." Does this sound like a network issue?

 

This server is connected directly to the router, and the computer I am trying to access the server on is connected to a switch which is connected to the router. I wouldn't think that is a problem, but originally, the server wasn't getting an ip when connected to the switch. That is itself weird, because I have another server connected to the switch which is just fine (though I did originally connect that straight to the router). That server is running 6.1.9 (it's not mine, I wanted to have fun with the bleeding edge on my server, yay, fun!). While I wait for you guys to think of something I'll probably try connecting my computer to the router as well, and then if that doesn't work I'll try directly connecting them.

 

One more thing, could someone tell me what broadcast is in the ifconfig readout? Normally when I see three ip address looking numbers the third is a default gateway, but the last number here is 255 and my router is the usual 1. So I'm probably wrong.

 

EDIT: Turns out they were already both on the router...

I have no idea what I did to fix it, but it works now.

 

I changed the install back to 6.1.9, that did nothing, as far as I could tell, if anything it made it worse as I was unable to get an ip address at all.

I re-terminated the ethernet cable that I was using, that did nothing. I went in the BIOS and saw that two of the SATA ports were in IDE mode, I remember seeing that as a bad thing to do, so I changed them to SATA. Maybe that was the issue, I don't see why that would cause a problem with networking, but whatever. I also used two different USB devices, the one that I am using now is newest one I have, but it was having the same issues as before, so I don't think it was the USB drive. Anyway, crisis averted.