>I however can't seem to ping the "Green" connection from the "Orange"
That's the way its supposed to work. This way, your protected (green) network is protected from the outside world. When (not if, but when) your external servers are compromised, they won't be allowed access to your LAN.

>but i can ping from the "Green" to the "Orange"
right, this is also by design. You trust your Green LAN, but not your Orange network. So, you'll want to allow the private lan to update and access the DMZ, but you don't want the DMZ to have any access to the private LAN.

>Also can't access my webserver from the internet using my IP address?
You'll need to forward ports to your machines running the appropriate services.

>I am sure this has to do with DMZ or port forwarding.
Exactly.
When you get an external request for http, for example, the SmoothWall will need to know which machine (IP) to forward that request (port 80) to. Unless you tell the SmoothWall where your Apache server is, it doesn't know where to send the request.

>Also when I boot up the router machine right before it initializes and beeps I get an error message "Register failed" don't know what it means
I don't know what's happening specificially. Where in the boot process is this occuring? POST? Kernel? Smoothie Boot? What are the error messages right aroud this and before this?

Next time you're in a bookstore, pick up that O'Reilly book I mentioned earlier--its the BEST book I've read on the topic. If you're running external servers, this book will be a great investment.

>Turned off all the wireless routers features
Very cool. Most people don't disable the NAT feature of the wireless routers. However, a very good way to do just this is to turn your wireless router into a wireless access point (WAP), and just use the DHCP server of the Smoothwall.

Congrats on the success, it sounds like you've got a pretty cool setup going on up there!

Thanks for all the info and help getting this rig going! I am very happy that things are working out the way they are. About the error message. i really don't see any other error messages around it. It happens about the time the HTTP server initializes just before the login prompt. I will try to get that book you have recomended. I will also study up on the SmoothWall manuals to have better insight. The info you have provided though has really helped out alot. Thank you very much for all your help.

Tim

the program setup always tells me to enter my phone number and i do and it doesnt work or it tells me that it cant find the network cards what is wrong?

Are you installing for a dial up connection? Or DSL maybe? I am not familiar with those types of installations yet being that i used a cable modem and a NIC as my red card. I am getting ready to build one for my sister though and she is on a dial up. Let me know what you find out. Sorry I can't be of more help. I am sure that someone on the forum could answer questions for you. Have you registered on http://smoothwall.org forum yet? There is extensive help there an the forum looks about like this one. Try it out.

Tim

I have a cable modem i just have no clue wutsoever to what the problem is

Well for the people who still wanted to setup a router/firewall/gateway with Redhat linux , I have done it . And if you need any help just email me at darktower2g3@comast.net.

I used a p2 333 with 32 megs of ram
2 120 gig hard drives
32x cdrom
1 nic card with a lynksys hub
1 usb cable modem

I used iptables and a program called portsentry to help me out.

But like i said , if anyone needs any help im willing to give a hand.

Sounds like when you are in setup that you are trying to setup the dial up or ISDN connection. If you have a cable modem then you need to disable this option when in the setup screen. As far as detecting the NICS. I had a realtek that it would not detect if I used autoprobe on any of the NICS. I chose to manually select all my NICS and that worked great. You might try that. Hope this helps. It will work so just hang in there. I went through the install what seemed like 100 times before I figured it all out! Now I am totally amazed at the new router! It is awesome.

Tim

P.S. Good job darkseed2g3 on your RedHat setup!

Caught this one a bit late. For simplicity you could always use fwiptables. Straight forward install and I think will do everything you need or have requested.

http://people.redhat.com/mgahagan/firewall/fwiptables

--chris

I dont know of any tutorials , I just kinda of went off the top my head. But if you need any real help or if you want step by step give me an email cause it would be kinda of long for here.

by the way my email is darktower2g3@comcast.net Im hoping to put a tutorial up in the tut. section soon though as soon as i get some time.