Hey.. I just got a T1 line installed in my office space, and I'm trying to get it connected by first going through a smoothwall box and then on to a switch...

Am I correct that SmoothWall will indeed do the routing needed for this? Or do I have to purchase a seperate router and then use SmoothWall for Firewall and DHCP??

The T1 Line is similar to a Cable Modem in that it comes into the building and has a modem with an ethernet port to cascade into a NIC...

I thought I set up the box correctly... with 2 NIC...

Green interface for my internal network...

Red Interface for the T1 line...

I used all the IP's I was given by my provider, ChoiceOne for the Static IP, Primary DNS, etc...

But when I get it all setup I can't access anything.. I have not yet called then to see if it is an error on my end.. but I'm just wondering...

Because after setting everything up, I reboot a couple of my networked workstations (XP Pro) and they don't pull an IP from the SmoothWall box either... it's like it doesn't exist or something.... Any help on this one is much appreciated...

floppy here
I think you might need a separate router
Smoothwall only supports
one of each of Red,Green and Orange NICs
Have you tried the Smoothwall forums
at Smoothwall.org

live long and prosper
floppywhopper

NOOOO!!!!!! you do NOT need a seperate router! routers are very evil, in my opinion (just me) I am not too familiar with the smoothwall distro (i use gentoo ) but i read an online tutorial on exactly this subject (with the exception of the t1 part. I did it with dsl but it shouldn't matter). with iptables, you should be able to configure your linux box as a firewall/gateway without the use of a router. It would be very redundant to explain the whole thing to you now. Instead, read the online tutorial that I read and you should be OK. (of course assuming that you know the basics of the linux operating system and how network devices are referred to).

the site is http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...rkGateway.html

oh by the way, is t1 that fibre-optic stuff? sounds really cool! how fast, exactly does it go anyways?

Sorry guys... I think I figured out my problem.

I was trying to use the internal network addresing scheme of "192.200.0.*" BUt it appears that because 192.200 addresses are not specifically set for being internal it won't work because when I redid it using 192.168 addressing it works fine...

Odd though... I always thought you could really use whatever the hell you wanted as your internal addressing...

It depends upon what your kernel ip routing table looks like. it defaults to 192.168. if you didn't set it as 192.200.0.0 (along with your ip) then it will not work. that was probably your problem. but it should be at 192.168. anyway.

you can check and change your ip routing table with the "route" command

If anyone can clue me in on what may be causing my "red" adapter to not work properly I would appreciate it.

I have setup a CPU connected with the "green" adapter to my wireless router (Linksys BEFW11S4) through one of the LAN ports. I can connect to through my LAN using IE with another PC and configure Smoothwall. I have been able to successfully setup DHCP to assign IP addressed to the clients connected to the router both wired and wireless BUT:

I dont think that the "red" adapter is connected properly to my cable modem. How do I know if it is configured correctly?

I have setup the smoothwall firewall with the green + red configuration & have enabled DHCP on the red adapter to be assigned an IP by my ISP (Cox). I have a straight-thru cable from the cable modem to the "red" adapter. Is there any way of releasing/renewing the IP address through Smoothwall. I'm not convinced that I have any activity in/out of the "red" adapter.

Thanks all,
Manny

Please dont double post. I just answered your question.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=244246