[SOLVED]Unable to reach server locally

[brian_mosher]

I'm having a really dumb problem and hoping I'm just overlooking something. I have installed a Zentyal server in my environment. Internal interface with IP of 10.0.1.254, external with IP 10.0.1.253. I can reach internet pages on the server. My laptop has an IP of 10.0.1.203, so we're all local here. Subnet Masks are 255.255.255.0. I cannot ping either of the Zentyal IPs from my laptop and therefore cannot reach the Dashboard through FireFox on my laptop. WHY?  Even better, before I sent this, I can ping my laptop IP from the Zentyal server. What am I missing here?

[Escorpiom]

Your internal and external interface are on the same subnet. It is not going to work that way.
Put one of the interfaces on another subnet so the routingtables can be build.

Cheers.

[brian_mosher]

Wow. I had it setup this way initially and absolutely could not get it to connect to the outside world. I must have had a wrong Gateway value in or something at the time. Thanks for the response and making me go back and revisit that configuration. Works like a charm now.

Cheers!