[suse 9.1 Pro] Install

I tried with 1 nic, not the realtek as I just see your recommandation, but will try this later. At this moment I don't get a IP from my router, static will do and can configure the router, to my opinion there is a connection then!
I don't get any connection with the www, do I have to configure DMZ on the router?
I installed Samba and can see the server from my Windows PC, :huh: so far so good. Seems to be that I only have no connection to the www! :angry:

I changed the NIC to Realtek but did not solve the problem

So using DHCP you are not getting an address but when you switsh to static you can connect with the internal LAN but not the net? Go back to where you reconfigured your card with a static IP and check under the Routing tab. This should show your routers IP as the default gateway so it knows how to get out to the net. Also check the Host name and Name server tab to see if you have your ISP's DNS server info under name servers.

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Thanks to give me the right direction . I filled in the ISP DNS but nothing happened, then I filled in the router IP as DNS and I have a connection!
I'm happy with the connection but the qestion is this the right way to as the connection is pretty slow :wub:

I'm happy with learning

A remark to this, it seems that the router don't detects the nic. Therefor I have some DNS problems to connect to the linux server.

fwiwMZ (Demilitarized zone) will allow (generally one) IP address to be exposed to the Internet Some games and video-conferencing services Only define such a DMZ host on which there is no critical data and don't share it in samba or wfw

Static or dynamic addresses: you really have two schools
When all the harware works fine, it ok to use statics.
One advantage of using dynamics is, for instance, in your case that the router would not recognize a NIC
When you have identified the MAC address of a NIC the DHCP server will have it in its table If it doesn't but another NIC would, you can mark the first as problematic.

Slow connections usually are hardware problems, packets being transmitted after umpteen attemps.
Could be a not 100% connector.

For some harware reasons (physical positio i a slot, shared IRQ, ...) some cards will not be recognized. Some AGP cards will request the two first neighbouring PCI slots to remain empty (power drain), some other interfaces would require both neighbours left and right slots to remain empty. The manual of the motherboard should have a table of IRQ assignments. Anyway, there is no rule here, some interfaces would work as long as another component with a higher priority would not mobilize the channel (IRQ, DMA, ...). Moving one card from one slot to the other can solve many problems.
Hence, before marking a NIC as problematic, test it in other slots.
When you found one, put a sticker on it to remember it later.

At boot fime, press F2 for the details. Will show where the system is attempting to recognize an interface. Log file says what has failed, the screen stays a "certain amount of time" on the problems before either flagging a succes or a fail.

I know what DMZ is but is not an option due to the data on the PC. Static IP is needed for port forwarding for exaple ftp, Web server etc.

I noticed by a port scan and mentioned before that the IP is recognised but not the Host name, therefor I can't access Webmin from an another PC because of the unknown host name. See below, with 192.168.0.6 you see the host name and not at 192.168.0.7

I also have to check the services for Linux which are related to dns and host names. Also check the manual of the router

192.168.0.2 *	3 ms *	
192.168.0.6	P2COMPUTER *5 ms *
	Software on H	
	F	
	D	
	SharedDocs	
	print$	
192.168.0.7 *	6 ms *	
	print$	
	groups	
	users