Chapter 6. Installing And Configuring Your SME Server V5 with ServiceLink Software
A computer needs a special software program, called an "ethernet driver", to use an ethernet adapter. Which ethernet driver is
required depends on which ethernet adapter is installed on your computer.
You will first need to select the appropriate driver for the ethernet adapter connected to your local network, a shown in the screen
below:
If you are using a PCI ethernet adapter that appears on our supported list, it is likely that your server will be able to detect your
hardware automatically and you will simply be able to choose option 1, "Use xxxx (for chipset yyyy)", where ’xxxx’ and ’yyyy’ are
specific to your hardware. If the software fails to detect it correctly, you can manually select the appropriate driver for your ethernet
adapter from a list of drivers or from a list of ethernet adapter models. After the appropriate driver is selected, select "OK" and
proceed to the next screen.
6.8.2. Configuring Local Network Parameters
Your SME Server V5 with ServiceLink needs information about your local network in order to communicate with the other
computers on your network. This includes the IP address and the subnet mask on your server’s internal interface. Because your
server acts as a gateway and firewall, these will differ from the IP address and subnet mask on the external interface.
If you plan to operate in server and gateway mode (explained in greater detail below), your server will act as a relay between your
local network and the Internet. Because no computer on your local network, other than your server, directly interacts with the external
world, the IP addresses assigned to those computers need only be unique with regards to your local network. (It doesn’t matter if a
computer on someone else’s local network uses the same IP address, because the two machines will not be in direct contact.) As a
result, we are able to use special "non-routable IP addresses" for your local network, including the internal interface of your server.
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