Re: [Sheflug] Re: Firewall

[Alex Hudson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 04 October 2001 20:10, you wrote:
> I don't understand what you're talking about at all. I've never done
> networking before. What is a gateway? 

Fair enough ;) The gateway is the machine on your network which has a 
connection to the internet, which all the other machines (or, the other 
machine in your case ;) use to access the internet, essentially. A gateway 
generally is a doorway to another network, but on home networks like yours 
and mine we can generally just simplify things.

> I only have two machines, this one
> and the firewall. It says in the docs to use the IP 192.168.0.1 and doesn't
> mention anything about another port when connecting through the browser.

Yep. What this means is that your gateway machine (the one with the internet 
access, I'm presuming the SmoothWall machine) should be 192.168.0.1. A good 
number for the other machine could be 192.168.0.2. Anything except 
192.168.0.0 and 192.168.0.255 is fine. You'll find that the two machines will 
then be on the same logical subnet: this basically means that they will be 
able to find each other.

Once your gateway machine is multihomed (has more than one network 
connection: one to your lan, one to the internet) you will be able to 
masquerade lan traffic to the internet (internet connection sharing). 
SmoothWall will make this fairly easy for you.

Anything else, ask - most people on this list have a network of some sort at 
home/work, and while they can be intimidating at first, they're pretty easy 
to setup once you're hip with the lingo ;)

Cheers,

		Alex.
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