I have a problem that is driving me nut's because my network setup works and then just simply refuses to work properly after reboot or network reconnections.

I'm using a Linux distro as a media server in my living room, there are two wireless routers as router 1 connects to the WWW and serves my server via Wan0 with and router 2 is connected to Lan0 serving my media network in the house(I want to keep my home net segregated from the internets), but I am having trouble with my server connecting to the www and I can't understand why...

Wan is set to DHCP:
192.168.xx.xx
255.255.255.0
default gateway+DNS server = 192.168.1.1

Lan
manual config
10.42.43.xx
default gateway+DNS server = 10.42.43.1

When I boot the server up and am physically have a kb and mouse plugged in I can connect Wan first and it connects(wireless bars show in network indicator), then I connect Lan which also connects allowing me to control everything via remote desktop and everythin works fine, but, if I need to reboot the server without being physically at it both wan and lan seem to connect at the same time at boot and the network indicator shows up as 'Lan connected only' mode(no wireless bars showing), which leaves Lan up but not Wan(but the propertys of Wan say it's connected and oddly I can connect to the manager on router 1 via 192.168.1.1 which means at least port 80 is getting as far as my router and then stops???

help?

can we see the output of "route"?

Quote from bunder9999 :

can we see the output of "route"?

I can't even see it atm!



I can draw a picture if you like?

E;



? explain please what is wrong.

draw it please, i can't even imagine how your machines are connected and what about 2 routers....??

okay, that looks good, what about the contents of /etc/network/interfaces ?