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

[Courtney Thomas]

Brian,

You were right and so was I.  I just didn't have enough sense to know it 
:-)

There was nothing wrong with my setup. It's just that I didn't realize I 
needed to
do a hard reset on the wireless router to apparently enable the router to
detect and incorporate each parameter change as I was feeling my way.

All now works as wanted ! Functionally.

But I'm still not sure if I've properly implemented subnetting re: the 
router,
lan and firewall. Comments ?  [Please see initially submitted query for 
detail.]

BUT......I have now half closed the firewall and would like to entirely 
close it, putting
it in "closed" configuration, defined as.........

    "all outgoing requests are blocked and must be explicitly chosen ports 
and services required".

How do I do this ?

Which ports and services, at a minimum, do I need ?

Cordially,

Courtney



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Pitts" <brian at polibyte.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] I've hit a rough wall, installin' Smoothwall :-)


> Hi Courtney,
>
> Let's approach the problem a step at a time.
>
> 1) Connect the machine running smoothwall directly to the internet. The
> goal here is to connect your modem to the "red" NIC so that interface
> has the public IP address given to you by your internet service provider
> (eg 216.77.188.41). If you have a cable modem this si probably as simple
> as plugging it in. If you have a DSL modem from Bellsouth it may be set
> up to act as a router; then you will need to figure out how to change it
> to act as a bridge.
>
> 2) Configure your private network in smoothwall. I do not have any
> experience doing this, but I imagine you assign a private IP address to
> your "green" NIC (e.g. 192.168.1.1), set up a DHCP server to listen on
> your "green" NIC and assign a range of addresses (eg 192.168.1.100 -
> 192.168.1.200), and tell smoothwall to forward traffic from "green" to
> "red".
>
> 3) Connect your ethernet hub to the "green" interface. You should be
> able to connect your machines with wired NICS to the hub and access the
> internet.
>
> 4) DON'T connect your wireless router to the hub or maching running
> smoothwall yet. Plug in just the power cord. Connect to it from your
> windows laptop. Log in to the linksys web interface. Turn off the
> linksys DHCP server. The linksys should have fields to set up internal
> and external IP addresses. Do not set up an external address. Give it an
> internal address on the same network as your smoothwall box (e.g.
> 192.168.1.2). Save these settings and unplug the linksys. NOW connect
> one of the 4 internal ethernet ports on the linksys to one of the ports
> on your hub using a crossover cable. Plug the linksys power back in.
> Your should be able to access the internet from your machines with wifi
> now.
>
> -Brian
>
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