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Now I'm getting to be a high-maintenance n00b.

Here's the deal:

Successfully installed Amahi and several apps yesterday. Fiddled around with it (not anything major -- just saving files to/accessing from it).

Then I disabled the DHCP server on my WRT54G wireless router, because the Amahi pages urge the use of the hda as the DHCP server.

That seemed to work. But I think I did it wrong.

Here's what happened: I came home today; inferred there had been a power outage (because my hda was off, and my computer had rebooted).

I then discovered, after booting my hda, that I could not get internet access. Either from my Windows PC or from my hda -- either by wireless or wired connection to my router, and I couldn't get internet access from my hda wired directly to the modem.

Then I discovered I could not get access to my hda control panel -- even from my hda!

Ultimately I had to hard-reset my router; now I can get internet access, through my router, but I have not yet tried my hda again (it's currently off).

This kind of shakes my faith in using the hda as my DHCP server. I'm also thinking of reinstalling Fedora and the hda from scratch, just in case I screwed something up in the install.

Any ideas of where I went wrong? Can a simple power outage affect the stability of the hda?

Incidentally, to disable DHCP on the WRT54G, I selected "DHCP Server - Disable" in the "Network Setup" section (next to Network Address Server Settings (DHCP)). Should I have instead changed my "Internet Configuration Type" from "Automatic Configuration - DHCP" to "Static IP"?

in your very last sentence, you indicate you turned off the dhcp server. that is correct.

some people turn off dhcp from the internet side, which would result in no internet access at all.

there are thousands of amahi deployments out there, so we're pretty confident about reliability and fault tolerance, however, from what you said, if it were not for the last sentence, i'd say you disabled the WAN/internet side of your router.

we have the interactive network troubleshoot page if you would like to try it.

Incidentally, to disable DHCP on the WRT54G, I selected "DHCP Server - Disable" in the "Network Setup" section (next to Network Address Server Settings (DHCP)).

This is ok, and what you are ment to do.

Should I have instead changed my "Internet Configuration Type" from "Automatic Configuration - DHCP" to "Static IP"?

This option is only for your ADSL Connection.
If your ISP supplies you with an IP Which they say YOU MUST USE Then this is where you would put that IP.

A Static IP from your ISP is an added Feature, at added cost, that you have to apply for (my current ADSL plan cannot have a static IP)

For most people the router asks the server for a random ip, hence the reason Amahi comes with built in Dynamic DNS.

PS. I work for the largest Telecommunications Company in my country.
I Live in New Zealand ( can you guess who i work for ?)

I looked up the manual for you router, and found the following

Pg. 42-44 WRT54g Manual

If you are using Your router as a DHCP server, then there are fields for DNS, WINS etc.
If you disable DHPC on your router, you will have to specify DNS servers on your HDA.

The HDA by default will send DNS requests to your router for forwarding to your ISP DNS server. (if you have DHCP Disable you can't browse the web.)

You can Add Your ISP DNS to the Amahi DNS by use if Webmin.
(I have done this with my ISP DNS Plus a few more for good measure)

If you need help doing this Let me know and i will post a Thread on DNS for all.

Hope this helps.