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

[Courtney Thomas]

Brian,

Thank you kindly for the analysis offer.

Might the following yield the answer as well ?

Can I not do a traceroute using the 's' option, if I recall correctly, to 
see what route the "wireless LAN members" are using, hence seeing if they 
are
actually [LAN -> internet] first examined by SmoothWall before exiting the 
LAN to the internet, and alternatively [internet -> LAN] first router then
SmoothWall processing  ?

I've not tried this as I'm in the middle of several other things that 
prohibit this right now but'll try sometime this week.

Doing as you request.....

modem <------> wireless router <-------> hub <---------> SmoothWall ethernet 
NIC [Green]
                                  ^
                                   |
                                   |
                                   v
                  SmoothWall NIC [Red]

I'm not at the LAN right now but I believe this is the setup.

Thank you Brian,

Courtney



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Pitts" <brian at polibyte.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] I've hit a rough wall, installin' Smoothwall :-)


> On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 11:39 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
>> Geoffrey,
>>
>> Either  :-)
>>
>> i.e. how can a SmoothWall installer be certain that...
>>      all  internet activity, both sending & receiving,
>> is actually being processed by SmoothWall  .....
>>
>> rather than...
>>      ONLY going directly in/out the wireless router,
>>      not being processed by SmoothWall at all   ?
>>
>
> Can you produce a diagram that shows the connections between your modem,
> the nics in the pc running smoothwall, your hub, and your wireless
> router?
>
> -Brian
>
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