IP Management - Server setup funny

[CiscoMike]

the people I'm leasing a server from setup DA kinda funny or it may just be how DA read the NIC's config. Anyways, like most resellers, they gave me a /29 with 5 useable addresses. Nothing unusual about that. However if I look in DA under Admin Tools -> IP Management, I see that all 5 IPs are bound to the server except they're under the first useable IP.

So for example, I was given (not real addresses) 192.168.0.232 / 29 which means .232 through .239 are addresses for me to use. .232 is the network, .233 is reserved by the hosting company, .234-.238 are mine to use/bind as I wish and .239 is the broadcast address. Again, nothing unusual about that. However when I look under IP management, I have:

IP status netmask
192.168.0.234 server 255.255.255.248

when I add .235 w/ a /32 mask, I'm told the IP is already in use. It gets added to the list but I'm worried about any potential issues. So...instead of all this I want to do this but I'm worried about losing access to the DA gui if I do so:

1. erase the IPs bound to DA.
2. Assign .238 to DA server
3. Assign .234 through .237 to admin/reseller accounts as appropriate.

Yes I know everything can run on one IP until SSL gets in the mix. I have other reasons for this as well. If I "delete selected" on the .234/29 address, will I lose gui access to DA? How would I go about doing this so that I don't break everything?

Thanks.

 

[jmstacey]

DA shouldn't let you delete the server IP address so you should be fine.

 

[nobaloney]

Originally posted by the people I'm leasing a server from setup DA kinda funny or it may just be how DA read the NIC's config.

Most likely.

Anyways, like most resellers, they gave me a /29 with 5 useable addresses. Nothing unusual about that. However if I look in DA under Admin Tools -> IP Management, I see that all 5 IPs are bound to the server except they're under the first useable IP.

I can't figure out what you mean by that. Can you explain?

However when I look under IP management, I have:

IP server netmask
192.168.0.234 server 255.255.255.248

If that's all you have, then what do you mean by they're under the first usable IP?

when I add .235 w/ a /32 mask, I'm told the IP is already in use. It gets added to the list but I'm worried about any potential issues.

It was probably already in the server's list (for example under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, if you're using certain distributions of linux). If so, then adding it to DA's list will create the warning but won't cause any problems.

So...instead of all this I want to do this but I'm worried about losing access to the DA gui if I do so:

1. erase the IPs bound to DA.

DA won't let you do it if they're already used by DA. Otherwise it's certainly OK.

2. Assign .238 to DA server
3.

You probably can't do that unless DA reissues the license, and they probably shouldn't do that unless you bought the license, since if the license belongs to the company renting you the server, the IP# it goes on should be determined by them.

Assign .234 through .237 to admin/reseller accounts as appropriate.

I'd say leave .234 for the DA server, and assign the rest as needed.

Yes I know everything can run on one IP until SSL gets in the mix. I have other reasons for this as well. If I "delete selected" on the .234/29 address, will I lose gui access to DA?

DA itself is bound to all active IP#s; as long as you've got another IP# set up, you shouldn't lose access to the web-based interface.

How would I go about doing this so that I don't break everything?

You can check DA's response on another IP# before you delete anything.

Jeff

 

[CiscoMike]

thanks guys. After playing with it for awhile I got it. Yeah, I had a /29 bound to my adapter including all 5 addresses assigned to me. What I mean by /29 is that's how many bits of netmasking I'm using, aka 255.255.255.248. I'm just used to how my previous CP handled things and am natuarally going through some growing pains with regards to DA. This is by no means a negative. I'm very happy with DA. It's just the IP address assignemnt isn't as intuitive as I thought it should be. But thankfully I'm over it and we're in good shape now.

 

[ZATZAi]

Ah, I see someone else is using Layered Tech.