Seagate Dockstar Discussion and Tutorial Thread

The dockstar is acting as your gateway here not the router so you have to connect to one of the the 4 LAN ports. Your wireless router is not doing any internet sharing function in this setup. It just acts like a wireless access point and a switch, thats all.
 
I want it simple
Dockstar is sharing net through eth0
Dockstar eth0 goes to router in
I change the default gateway in router
router takes care of all other settings like DHCP for others
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the yellow port with internet written below
i have put eth0 of dockstar in this
 
kuduku said:
I want it simple

Dockstar is sharing net through eth0

Dockstar eth0 goes to router in

I change the default gateway in router

router takes care of all other settings like DHCP for others

View attachment 15964

the yellow port with internet written below

i have put eth0 of dockstar in this
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I'm not sure whether this will work. If you are using another wired internet connection or something, connect that to WAN port and the Dockstar to one of the 4 LAN ports. And when you want to switch the connections you just need to change the gateway IP on the client.
 
I think i got that

I will repeat

use your guide for sharing internet

put eth0 on one of the four LAN ports of router

in all computers/ laptop gateway will be ip address of eth0

with this my router will share internet for other devices through other 3 LAN ports and wirelessly

correct or any other steps required

varkey said:
The dockstar is acting as your gateway here not the router so you have to connect to one of the the 4 LAN ports. Your wireless router is not doing any internet sharing function in this setup. It just acts like a wireless access point and a switch, thats all.
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i agree but if i connect it to internet port then it should also work

Thats how networks are extended

the gateway dockstar gives internet out which is shared/extended by this router

isnt it ?

well let me try it out tomorrow and will update

might be wrong but thought so ....
 
Yes, that should be enough. :)

Well, as I said, I'm not sure about connecting it directly to WAN port. Even if you do that, you will need to manually set the WAN IP to static and set the gateway accordingly and it may work, but it will just add one more device in between which you don't need as the dockstar is already doing the job of acting as a gateway.

Anyway try it and update here! :)
 
@varkey buddy you are a genius

Many thanks for helping in setting it up for me

and success in connecting through WAN port also

steps

change WAN connection type to static IP

WAN IP 192.168.1.1 ( I have put it same as router IP)

Subnet mask 255.255.255.0

Gateway 192.168.1.X ( IP of dockstar LAN port eth0 )

Static DNS BSNL/Google your wish

In router Network Setup

Router IP 192.168.1.1

Subnet mask 255.255.255.0

Gateway 0.0.0.0

DNS 0.0.0.0

BTW your method also works

First tried with your method

then hit and trial with WAN port

But you saved my E2000 and dockstar

was going to dispose off due to this issue

everything working beautifully

Please add this gateway thing in your guide

Guided are for noobs like me so add that

with the gateway thing solved it was a breeze in setting up

Now samba is enabled on dockstar

which i was using when directly connected to Dockstar LAN port/WIFI

but with this router method i cannot see my samba shares

I cannot see the dockstar in Network only my pc is there

I have win 7 pro

cannot ping to Dockstar LAN eth0

will that not be possible now as its the WAN port ????

i will add the WIFI dongle on dockstar and check and update

yes with wifi samba and dockstar available

through WAN port dockstar unavilable

what are my options now ?

shift back to your method ??

anything else possible

doesnt have a free usb port to keep the wifi attached to it permanently

had ordered a mini usb female to usb from deal extreme which has still not come

one usb port is pen drive with Debian

second datacard

third HDD

tried many times to install debain on first partition of Usb HDD but that didnt work

it would just not boot

lost my 1tb data due to this install trials

it would have freed one port

shifted to your method of Dockstar eth0 on router LAN port

now can connect to it

webin , putty works

but still no samba
 
hi i installed debian squeeze on pink pogo plug with downloaded image usb image tool accorfding to below web site

Setup your Pogoplug as a Squeezebox Server | rustybytes.com

it farmatted my 4gb pen drive to 256 swap and remaining 3.5gb ext2 and installed squeeze to it

so now my downloads directory and rootfs are in same partition

i get 750kBps transfer speed with samba

is it possible to resize the boot partition without reinstalling likewise in windows?
 
Folks, Varkey,

I am also done with all the setup. Dockstar + BSNL 3G works great, am having great speeds. Having said that, I have two issues:

  1. I still can't access net via dockstar, I am assuming keeping the dockstar in dhcp is the problem. However transmission is working fine, it can access net with no issue.
  2. Secondly, I am unable to access the dockstar via ddns using ppp port, any clue?

I am attaching my dockstar's config as git zip ball for reference.

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+LT
 

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1. Its better you set a static IP for the dockstar then on each client you have to manually set the Gateway IP as that of Dockstar. You can also setup a DHCP server on the Dockstar if you want to avoid setting the IP manually.

2. Are you getting a 117.x.x.x IP when you connect to BSNL 3G? I am able to access the Dockstar through the public IP with no issues.
 
varkey said:
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2. Are you getting a 117.x.x.x IP when you connect to BSNL 3G? I am able to access the Dockstar through the public IP with no issues.
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root@debian:/# echo -e "\n`wget -nv -O - http://checkip.dyndns.org/ 2>&1 | \

> sed -n -e 's/.*<body>\(.*\)<\/body>.*/\1/p'`\n"

Current IP Address: 117.228.27.198



Yup, could there be some firewall issue? Can you suggest any settings ?

+LT
 
I am still having that issue with the dockstar failing after the electricity goes out a few times. Most of the time the only thing that works is to connect it to another Unix box and run fsck on the filesystem.

Any step-by-step solution to fix this? :(
 
techie_007 said:
I am still having that issue with the dockstar failing after the electricity goes out a few times. Most of the time the only thing that works is to connect it to another Unix box and run fsck on the filesystem.

Any step-by-step solution to fix this? :(
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If you are using ext3 and have made the changes in the uBoot and fstab and still facing the issue, it might be cause of the usb drive itself. I had the same problem with a particular pen drive no matter what I do, it doesn't boot after a power failure and needed a manual fsck.
 
Can someone gimme simple to sue step by step instructions? Dont want to do too much R&D.

Basically -

1. how to convert to ext3.

2. What all and where all to make changes.

3. How to verify that everything is fine.
 
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