[ale] I've hit a rough wall, installin' Smoothwall :-)

[Courtney Thomas]

Dennis,

I am NOT using the wireless router's internet port, at all, i.e.
I'm only using it's ethernet ports, of which there are 4.

Does this mean I'm currently using the wireless router
 in "access point mode"  ?

How do I physically connect an ethernet hub to the wireless router ?

Why can't the Windows machine with it's wireless adapter
access the web, when Smoothwall is connected to the web ?

Thank you,

Courtney


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Ruzeski" <denniruz at gmail.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] I've hit a rough wall, installin' Smoothwall :-)


> You're going to have to leave the wireless router's internet
> connection unplugged and use it in 'access point' mode. It's possible
> to set them up in line and have 2 layers of NAT, but I certainly
> wouldn't reccommend it.
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Courtney Thomas
> <courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> Season's Greetings  !
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> My current dilemma is............
>>
>> Accessing the web, I can NOW either have,
>>    a Smoothwall firewall box with NICs,
>>        OR
>>            a Windows box with a wireless card,
>> but not both simultaneously.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>>
>> The setup for the Smoothwall box's web access [see Next Hyphenated 
>> section]
>> is RED & GREEN,
>> i.e. has two NICs connected to the wireless router's ethernet ports.
>>
>> For the Windows box to succeed in web access is to unplug Smoothwall's
>> ethernet cables from the
>> wireless router, else they fail to connect.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> The Smoothwall configuration is:
>>
>>    ifconfig
>>                    eth0    192.168.1.1
>>                    eth1    192.168.2.201
>>                    lo        127.0.0.1
>>
>> route -n
>>                    192.168.1.1            0.0.0.0
>> 255.255.255.255            UH            eth0
>>                    192.168.2.201        0.0.0.0
>> 255.255.255.255            UH            eth1
>>                    192.168.2.0            0.0.0.0
>> 255.255.255.0                U               eth1
>>                    192.168.1.0            0.0.0.0
>> 255.255.255.0                U               eth0
>>                    0.0.0.0                    192.168.1.254    0.0.0.0
>> UG            eth0
>>
>> hostname smoothie    =    192.168.1.254
>>
>> DHCP Server ->    disabled
>>
>> Default Security    ->    open [for now]
>>
>> Network Configuration type ->    Green + Red
>>
>> Driver & Cards
>>                            Green = Digital tulip 
>> eth0
>> 192.168.1.254
>>                            Red    = RealTek RTL 8129/39    eth1    DHCP
>> hostname = bellsouth.net
>>
>> DNS & Gateway
>>                            dns nameservers = 205.152.37.23, 
>> 205.152.144.23
>>                            gateway             = 192.168.1.254
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> My goal is:
>>
>>     to have all the computers having only NICs and no wireless cards that
>> were on the former ethernet LAN,
>>     which include Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Apple, etc.....as well as a 
>> few
>> machines that now have wireless cards,
>>    ALL be protected by Smoothwall.
>>
>> How can I attach an ethernet hub so that...
>>         machines without wireless cards, i.e. only NICs,
>>                ...and... the wireless enhanced Windows boxes....
>> ALL be protected by the wireless router, a Linksys Broadband-B 2.4 Gig 
>> with
>> 4 ethernet ports and 1 internet  ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Any references that resolve this situation would need to be elementary as 
>> I
>> obviously don't know what I'm doing   :-(
>> just what I want to do  :-)
>>
>>
>> Thanks to any and all,
>>
>> Courtney
>>
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