Cat5/Router Issue

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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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