[Server-devel] Setting up XS-0.5 for testing

[Jerry Vonau]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> 2008/11/18 Dan Poltawski <talktodan at gmail.com>:
>> I'm looking at setting up a simple test rig for playing with the school
>> server, and I have the following hardware for use:
>>
>> * An XO
>> * A generic laptop with a wired & a wireless interface and XS-0.5
>> installed
>> * A generic wireless AP
>> * (A NATTed dhcp'd network with external connectivity)
>>
>> Can I setup a test rig with that hardware - how would you go about it?
> 
> You are on the right track - the current XS configuration doesn't know
> what to do with the wireless interface the machine has, so it'll
> probably ignore it.
> 
> And tyou can use xs-swapnics even on a single-nic machine, to set the
> only nic to be eth1. Some of it is documented in the README
> (README.networking perhaps) for the xs-config package.
> 
>> With a basic XS install, the server seemed to connect to the external
>> network fine, and also created a school-mesh-0 wireless network
>> which was visible from my mac - but not seemingly from the XO.
> 
> school-mesh-0 probably came from the XO though, when it attempts to
> setup a mesh connection ot'll send frames that your machine may have
> interpreted erroneously as an AP.
> 
>> So the next thing I tried was connecting the WAP to the XS ethernet
>> interface. However, on investigation I noticed that dhcpd was not
>> running (and was asking for network_config and domain_config to be run).
>> So I ensured network_config and domain_config were sorted and rebooted.
> 
> Good step, combine with xs-swapnics and you'll be on the right track I think
> 

That is what I saw earlier on firstboot, named assumes a default name 
and starts up without /etc/sysconfig/xs_domain_name, while dhcpd doesn't 
start because /etc/sysconfig/xs_domain_name is not set. Shouldn't dhcpd 
be setup with the same default server domain and role for firstboot?


Jerry