Yea I have been reading the install and admin documents. They are very good docs and have proved helpful for some other things but still can't get this puppy to crack.
I really think the problem has to do with the routing, the only stuff that I edited was the things with *'s, so the 0.0.0.0 is what SW set it up with. The 0's show up in the web-admin util but if i type route on the box they just come up as *'s as you had listed. What does yours show in the web-admin util?

* It won't "hand out ip's" because it isn't a DHCP Server. In my experience typically Linux distro's come with the DHCP Client (see "man dhclient") but not the server part of DHCP. For that you need the full ISC.ORG (Internet Software Consortium) DHCP Software.

http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/dhcp/

A fairly simple dhcp.conf configuration file can get you going with it. I did it on Fedora Core. Let me know if you need to see my simple dhcp.conf file.

(I was running ISC DHCP as an ISP with two servers in two cities on Solaris 8 taking care of several thousand clients via DHCP covering two cities).

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Alan S.

what exactly do you mean? Using http://192.168.0.1 ?

You can use the external ip and https protocol
https:\\GREEN.IP:441

As well the internal Green) https://192.168.0.1:441 as the external RED https://RED:441 work.

Hi all, I had more or less the same problem at home.
I resolved it by installing Firewall Builder on my Suse linux box (http://www.fwbuilder.org)
It does not only do firewall but it does NAT too !!! This is what you need.
For DHCP: If you have DHCP running on your router then simply install and configure it (allow it in firewall builder)
If you have DHCP running on another server outside your internal new network then you need to install a package called dhcp-relay and to configure it. You have to add also a new scope for your new network on your DHCP Server with all of your net configs.

Try it !!!!!
Hope this helps, bye Kess...

SW should do that out of the box after configuration......
so still something nok.

what are your client settings
gateway, ip nr and DNS?

tip?
http://community.smoothwall.org/foru...c01e8693a6d2dd

search with problem internet client ? or other keywords.
Must be something strange (*) or small, SW is so easy, I installed it the first time without knowing it in ~ 20 minutes including configuration (I'am an enthousiastic linux user but not an expert...)

(*) : take another network card... sometimes a card might be half-rotten...

Ok well that may have been the problem, I had Green as external and Red as internal....So yea I will go switch that now and see what happnes.

Ok that was it, I just had the damned things backwards, damn do I feel stupid. Its working now that I fixed it up, and I am glad it is because SmoothWall really looks like a nice little package (already got 2 friends using it now too ). The only beef we have with it is that the updating feature isn't all that great. All of us have had it say we have all the updates when we know we didn't (I currenly only have one in and it won't see anymore even after rebooting the SW box and the box it was remoted from) and you can't just manually force it because it says its not a valid update, but I am assuming thats for security reasons.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions!!@

Another option is the old e-smith distro at http://www.contribs.org

It is almost a no-brainer to get going and works quite well. I have 3 of them. They do NAT and DHCP serving. Excellent file servers, and they also do email and web serving with PHP and MySQL preinstalled.

You're welcome, fine it works now.
(those small things can really be nasty..).
I remember to have such a upgrade problem too. why I cannot tell anymore.
I remember for one installation that i did it manually.
Use the ssh screen or even more easy use WinSCP3 (plus putty) and rranfer the update fixe to the tmp dir.
I thought /i've installed it with the
tar ..... -C option like normal packages, plse check on the exact cmd,
After that reboot and later on the fixes were on the admin page as being installed.
Have lot of fun with it!

Wow that old e-smith distro sound pretty powerful, it take it that its more of just a strike server than anything else. It still being supported?

I 've use E-Smith but it was hacked 2x..... Smoothwall not.
It must be of of a trojan on a client but still... (all ports were stealth too).
SW is better in MSN as far as I coul check. H323 on E-Smith was excellent, but on SW too. UPnP needed for MSN work with a mod on SW quite good. On E-Smith I read ver little on it (like on the IPCops server edition).
So thats why I prefer now SW.

By the way: it is safer to split router and server on 2 machines.
So if you want those services behind SW iti s very easy to port forward the right ports.
Maybe thats why I was hacked... I did it all on one machine....

There is nothing wrong with having those services on one machine. I have several of them myself and even one (cough) Windows (hack) server that performs several functions in addition to routing. The Windows box sucks, but my boss wanted it so he got it.

I've not had any problems on my e-smith boxes at all. Been running them for about 4 years now and they all work perfectly. Upgrades are easy and work flawlessly, and additional software is a snap because it's based on Red Hat and uses rpm's. Firewall software is easy to install and manage, especially if you install Webmin.