Network troubleshooting

Rule #0: do not turn off DHCP in your router until your HDA has full network connectivity

Your HDA should be capable of browsing all the major sites and http://www.amahi.org before doing anything else upon first boot.

If that is not the case, you may want to check that the settings that you programmed in amahi.org for your network and router match that of your actual network and the router in it. Amahi assumes a regular, typical home network.

Please note that only the first NIC/ethernet card (eth0) is supported out of the box. If you have two, please make sure you use eth0 for the LAN where your Amahi HDA resides (later you can change to eth1, by hand).

Steps in network troubleshooting:

Step 1

From your hda itself (via ssh or at the desktop in a terminal), can you:

1. ping hda (this ensures the dns server is working)
2. ping router (this ensures your HDA can see the router)
3. ping 68.180.206.184 (this ensures you can see the rest of the world)
4. ping yahoo.com (this ensures your dns server can see the world)

If the above does not work, try and fix it by double checking the settings.

Step 2

If the above works, then and only then you may turn off the DHCP server in your router.

'IMPORTANT: after turning off the DHCP server, you must repair (or reboot) your clients for them to get the DHCP lease from your Amahi HDA.

Then move to one or more the clients:

1. ping hda (this ensures the client can see the DNS server in your HDA)
2. ping router (this ensures the client can see your network gateway)
3. ping yahoo.com (this ensures the client can see the world)

if you want to stop by the IRC channel for help, it would speed things up to report where you are "stuck" in that list, like step 1.3, or 2.2.