[Sheflug] Firewall

[Barrie Bremner <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Darrell" == Darrell Blake <dazblake [at] btinternet.com> writes:

    Darrell> Hey, I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I'm running
    Darrell> Slackware 8 and I've decided to set up a firewall using
    Darrell> Smoothwall. I have installed smoothwall on another
    Darrell> machine and the two computers and connected through
    Darrell> ethernet cards. I have the smoothwall box set up on an IP
    Darrell> of 192.168.0.1 and my linux box is set up on 192.168.0.0

Whoooops.

N.N.N.0 and N.N.N.255 for any IP range[1] are broadcast addresses - you shouldn't attempt
to assign a machine to use those addresses.

    Darrell> (I used netconfig on slackware to configure it). It says
    Darrell> in the documentation that you should connect to
    Darrell> 192.168.0.1 in an internet browser to get to the
    Darrell> configuration. I try this and it says it can't access
    Darrell> it. I have used linux for ages but I have no experience
    Darrell> whatsoever in networking. I'm hoping someone can help me
    Darrell> with this.

Leave the gateway on 192.168.0.1, and configure the other machine to
be on 192.168.0.2, with the gateway set to 192.168.0.1.

Also make sure the netmask is the same for both machines - it should
be 255.255.255.0 (otherwise written as /24) for both. 

Cheers.

Baz.



[1] Unless there are a few exceptions I'm not aware of -
i.e. multicast.

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