OK it was not the cable. Nor was it my router.
I needed to set the guest network to bridged. Which I think I did.
Remember I told you I was paranoid? Well the new VM has a static IP and
that IP needed to be put into my Access Control List (ACL). Yikes I
chased that one for lots of hours. Glad I finally figured that one out.
Keith
On 2024-07-05 06:26, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You may recall I has an issue with Proxmox and trying to configure a
> guest Ubuntu LAMP server. For some reason during the end of the
> install Ubuntu would throw an error saying it could not reach the
> repositories. I spent several days on that issue trying every solution
> on the net. After 2 days I had to move on to other things.
>
> Fast forward and I am in the process of configuring VirtualBox on an
> old Win10 laptop. Yesterday I got to the point of configuring an
> Ubuntu LAMP server.
>
> I was thinking I would not be able to install the guest while the
> laptop was using WIFI. I later learned that was false. So I took the
> cat5 that was plugged into the failed Proxmox box and plug it into my
> laptop and converted to cable from WIFI.
>
> I downloaded Ubuntu 24.04 and started the instillation process on
> VirtualBox. I got the same error that I got from the Proxmox box. To
> troubleshoot I configured the laptop to use WIFI. I then had a very
> slow but successful install.
>
> Interestingly I used this same cable plugged into the same router port
> for another laptop that I setup as LAMP+BIND+Postfix+Dovecot web
> server, with no known issues.
>
> The web server is on my right and the ProxMox box is on the left of me.
>
> I added the RJ45 cubes to the raw cable creating this cable. I did
> this about 22 years ago.
>
> Interesting find. Not sure it is the cable or the router.
>
> This morning I am going to visit Walmart to obtain a new cable.
> Walmart has rolls of cat5 of differing lengths with the RJ45 cubes
> already installed. I think it is worth a try.
>
> I would have never suspected my router or my cable.
>
> All comments are very welcome!!
>
> Keith
>
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