Installation Tip in case of Browser can't find "http://moode.local"

[TomWoB]

Hi all,

as I just wrote in another thread, today I did a successful installation of moOde 6.4 without any keyboard or display plugged-in into Raspberry Pi.
There was a small network problem I could solve very simple, but maybe I share it for other users

• after inserting SD-card and Power On I couldn't find my Pi under "http://moode.local"
  (btw: my Pi is connected with LAN-cable to a switch, which has a wireless connection to my router)
  
  
• but ... I could connect to the PI with SSH under "moode.local"
  
  
• with command "ifconfig" I checked the IP (169.254.103.200), which was also not reachable with the Browser ("http://169.254.103.200")
  
  
• not a big thing, with the following command you can force a "temporarly IP-config" of a PI (do not boot, it's just set and working)
  My home network has pattern 10.0.0.xy, so I used "10.0.0.135" as the temporarly IP for my PI with the command:
  sudo ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.135 netmask 255.255.255.0
  
  
• Now I could reach the moOde UI with the Browser by typing "http://10.0.0.135".
  Clear ... first step of configuration was the real network setup for consistency ...
  

Maybe I can help some other users with this "user guide" ...

Regards
Tom

[Tim Curtis]

The symptoms suggest a network / client issue.

1. An IP address in the 169.254. x.x range is an Automatic Private IP address (APIPA) and is assigned when the computer cannot reach a DHCP server on the network to get a legitimate IP address.

2. The .local domain cannot be resolved by Browsers on Android OS

The problem to troubleshoot is why the DHCP server which I presume your Router provides, is not reachable by moOde/Linux client on the other side of the switch.

[TomWoB]

The symptoms suggest a network / client issue.

1. An IP address in the 169.254. x.x range is an Automatic Private IP address (APIPA) and is assigned when the computer cannot reach a DHCP server on the network to get a legitimate IP address.

2. The .local domain cannot be resolved by Browsers on Android OS

The problem to troubleshoot is why the DHCP server which I presume your Router provides, is not reachable by moOde/Linux client on the other side of the switch.

Hi Tim,

@1. I know and I agree

@2. I can't reach "http://moode.local" on a Windows 10 Pro PC with Firefox !

But the special thing is, my Pi is not directly connected to the router, it's connected to a Netgear switch, which is connected via a "Zyxel NWA1123-AC" wireless to the router.
If I connect it directly to the router (LAN-cable), "http://moode.local" can be reached (if I remember right, I did this with other Raspberry Pis).

Regards
Tom

[Tim Curtis]

That explains it :-)