Gahhhhh I'm through trying to set up a blasted file server.

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
Oh, I think I should mention that the Linux box is going to be directly connected to my primary XP machine, so basically Linux Box -> Windows XP Dual Lan -> Router -> Modem

I'm a little concerned... can Windows handle this? Basically get DHCP info from the router but at the same time forward internet to the Linux box and have it's own little network with it?

why not :

modem <-> router <-> linux box and Windows box

router gives DHCP and both boxes get IP addy's.

My setup is my modem connects to my Freesco box (linux router) and goes to an 8 port switch. The PCs on the lan are connected to the switch. Each PC gets IP address from the Freesco box.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
Oh, I think I should mention that the Linux box is going to be directly connected to my primary XP machine, so basically Linux Box -> Windows XP Dual Lan -> Router -> Modem

I'm a little concerned... can Windows handle this? Basically get DHCP info from the router but at the same time forward internet to the Linux box and have it's own little network with it?

why not :

modem <-> router <-> linux box and Windows box

router gives DHCP and both boxes get IP addy's.

My router's only 10/100. I want it to be Gigabit because I often work with large image files and large ISO files.

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
Oh, I think I should mention that the Linux box is going to be directly connected to my primary XP machine, so basically Linux Box -> Windows XP Dual Lan -> Router -> Modem

I'm a little concerned... can Windows handle this? Basically get DHCP info from the router but at the same time forward internet to the Linux box and have it's own little network with it?

why not just hook the linux box straight to the router?

 

[Colt45]

doh, missed that reply. well put a gigabit switch behind the router then

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
Oh, I think I should mention that the Linux box is going to be directly connected to my primary XP machine, so basically Linux Box -> Windows XP Dual Lan -> Router -> Modem

I'm a little concerned... can Windows handle this? Basically get DHCP info from the router but at the same time forward internet to the Linux box and have it's own little network with it?

why not :

modem <-> router <-> linux box and Windows box

router gives DHCP and both boxes get IP addy's.

My router's only 10/100. I want it to be Gigabit because I often work with large image files and large ISO files.

just put two nics in the linux box...1 pipe to you for speed, 1 pipe to the rest of the network for internet access etc.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
Oh, I think I should mention that the Linux box is going to be directly connected to my primary XP machine, so basically Linux Box -> Windows XP Dual Lan -> Router -> Modem

I'm a little concerned... can Windows handle this? Basically get DHCP info from the router but at the same time forward internet to the Linux box and have it's own little network with it?

why not :

modem <-> router <-> linux box and Windows box

router gives DHCP and both boxes get IP addy's.

My router's only 10/100. I want it to be Gigabit because I often work with large image files and large ISO files.

just put two nics in the linux box...1 pipe to you for speed, 1 pipe to the rest of the network for internet access etc.

very similar to my setup.

in fact, if I wanted to I could install a gigabit nic and convert my lan to gigabit fairly easily. My switch would need to be changed out though.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
Oh, I think I should mention that the Linux box is going to be directly connected to my primary XP machine, so basically Linux Box -> Windows XP Dual Lan -> Router -> Modem

I'm a little concerned... can Windows handle this? Basically get DHCP info from the router but at the same time forward internet to the Linux box and have it's own little network with it?

why not :

modem <-> router <-> linux box and Windows box

router gives DHCP and both boxes get IP addy's.

My router's only 10/100. I want it to be Gigabit because I often work with large image files and large ISO files.

I know what you mean. I deal with 4 to 8 gig video files all the time. A 100 megabit lan seems slow right now.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
So this all started because I have a bunch of IDE hard drives and I can't find an IDE controller card that's reliable and works. All IDE controller cards I've tried have hard locked my computer....

I'm curious which IDE controller cards you were having problems with.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
So this all started because I have a bunch of IDE hard drives and I can't find an IDE controller card that's reliable and works. All IDE controller cards I've tried have hard locked my computer....

I'm curious which IDE controller cards you were having problems with.

First IDE controller was a Syba brand with a Silicon Image chipset. I had a ton of problems at the start with hard locks, but I finally managed to find a fix that involved downloading a program called SIConfig. It took me a danged long time just to find this software, which was seemingly *nowhere* to be found and was only alluded to in one forum post that I had found on Google.

Using SIConfig alleviated the hard locks, but programs like Speedfan which query the HDDs' temperature sensors on startup would lock the system. After a few months the Silicon Image controller started to hard lock again, despite nothing having changed in the system.

So this time I decided to spend more money and grab a Promise TX133 controller card with a lot of positive reviews. It works nicely for about half a month, then causes the hard drives to start whirring up and down constantly, causing the system to hard lock. My specifically, the hard drive would whir up, then just stop with a tick sound, whir up, stop with a tick, whir up, stop with a tick. Unplugging the whirring HDD from the power would unlock my system. It wasn't isolated to a single cable or a single channel or a single hard drive. It was just the card that was screwed up. I tried different firmware, different drivers, different cables, different drives, but nothing worked.

Finally, now that I was absolutely fed up with not having my data and having no uptime and having to constantly reboot my computer because IDE drives are not hot-swappable, I decided to go for a file server.