Help with Ubuntu Server 6.06 please!

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I just installed Ubuntu Server 6.061 on a Dell Poweredge 2300/600 server, which has 2 x 600mhz PIII's, 1.5gb ram, and 6 x 9gb 10k scsci drives in it.

It seems to be working fine; I started some basic configuration using this guide I found:

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_6.06_p3

However, I could not connect to the server using Putty. In that guide they say to set /etc/network/interfaces to static rather than dhcp, which I did. But this is perhaps a bad move since I am on a cable connection with a presumably dynamic IP. Anyways, I tried changing it back to DHCP in that interfaces file, and now I can connect to the server via Putty but the problem is that after about 30 seconds, it locks up. Then if I try to connect again, it doesn't connect. But if I do

/etc/init.d/networking restart

on the server, after that i can connect to it again on another computer via putty. but it locks up again after ~ 30 seconds. Please note that I mean Putty locks up, not the server. The server never locks up or seems to lag or anything, I have tried doing stuff on it once Putty locks up on the other computer and the server still seems fine.

Any ideas??

 

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How is your network setup?

Do you have a single cable internet connection to a cable modem, with that connecting to a firewall/router and then you connect your computers to that?

Like this:

internet -----> modem ----(ethernet)---> home firewall/router ----> your home LAN.


Then if that is so your running private IP addresses on your home network, right? Ranges between 192.168.0.0-192.168.255.255, 172.16.0.0?172.31.255.255, 10.0.0.0-10.255.255.255 ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network


Then you will want to give your server a static address.


If your connecting your server directly to the cable network then you'll probably want a dynamic address.

 

[Mizugori]

i have a cable internet connection (5mbps down, not sure up i think 1 or 2)

i then have a router which routs the connection between two computers so they can both have internet. i added the server to the router the other day when i first got it.

so each computer has an address like 192.168.0.xxx and my router's address is 192.168.0.1

how would i configure it to be static?

thanks!