I may only be at the Fedora Server WG meeting today for a short time, because of a doctor's appointment, so I wanted to mention something that came up when I was reviewing the documentation for Fedora Server Installation and Post Install Tasks. I tested the Fedora Server Standard ISO image install on the following hardware:
TOSHIBA product: Satellite C650 v: PSC2EU-001027 Mobo: TOSHIBA model: Portable PC serial: <filter> BIOS: INSYDE v: 1.00 date: 04/01/2011 CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-2310M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge Graphics: Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: i915 Network: Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: atl1c Device-2: Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter driver: rtl8192ce
Since, the laptop has a built in wifi adapter, I decided to set up networking during the install using that device. Fedora Server installed without issue, but when I tried to connect to it remotely I could not.
- The system had received an internal IP address from my DHCP server. My DHCP server could see the system connected to the network at the address it was assigned. The Fedora Server login prompt correctly displayed the internal IP address that it had been given. - Yet, I could not ssh to the system. Cockpit would not come up when I tried to access Cockpit from my workstation on the same LAN. I was unable to ping the system as well. - However, when I logged into the system directly, I had the correct IP address connected through the wireless adapter, and I could do a "sudo dnf update" without any problems.
I tried plugging in an Ethernet cable, which still didn't allow me to connect remotely to the system, until I rebooted. After a reboot, I was able to ssh, connect to Cockpit, and ping the system. However, when I closed the lid of the laptop (putting the system to sleep) and then opened the lid again later, once again coming out of sleep I have all of the same connection issues that I had before. I'm not sure what is happening during sleep that causes the remote connections to be lost. When I run "ip address" it looks the same when I reboot and have the ethernet cable plugged in as when I wake the system from sleep and run the command again.
I realize that connecting Fedora Server with wifi is not the most common way to network a server, but I didn't find anything in the documentation that mentioned that wifi connections would not allow remote access. So, I believe this is a bug in Fedora Server 37 Beta, and one that would be good to address before release of Fedora 37.
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