[Sheflug] Firewall, Please Help!!!

[Darrell Blake <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm having serious problems with setting up a firewall. I was at the meeting 
on Saturday and got some sound advice but I still can't set it up. I thought 
I'd write down exactly what I have done to set it up both on this main 
machine and on the smoothwall machine. I've even totally reinstalled 
Slackware 8 incase I'd screwed around with the distro too much.

Slackware Machine
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First I installed slack and did the following at the netconfig bit.

1. It asked for my hostname so I set it to spam (don't ask).
2. It asked for my domainname so I set it to dbr.
3. I chose a Static IP (From the list of Static IP, DHCP or Loopback).
4. It asked me to enter an IP for spam.dbr so I entered 192.168.1.2
5. It asked for the netmask so I set it to 255.255.255.0
6. It asked for a gateway address so I set it to 192.168.1.1 (the IP of the 
smoothwall machine).
7. It asked if I would be accessing a nameserver so I set it to no (coz I 
don't know what it is).

That's it for the Slackware machine.

Smoothwall Machine
---------------

I then installed smoothwall on the other machine and set it up as follows.

1. I set the Hostname to smoothwall.
2. I set ISDN to Disable ISDN.
3. I set the network configuration type to Green and Red (Red being the 
modem).
4. It then detected my NIC card.
5. I set the IP address of the machine to 192.168.1.1
6. I set the netmask of the machine to 255.255.255.0

That's basically it. I rebooted both machines and it then says in the 
smoothwall docs to type in the IP of the smoothwall box in a browser window 
to set it up. But when I do it says Could Not Connect To Host. I've tried 
pinging the machine but when I do I get a 100% loss on all packets. I've 
checked the cable to make sure it's connected properly (coaxial) and it's 
fine. Both machines detect a the NIC cards fine so I can't see a problem 
there. I suppose it could be the cable... I'm running smoothwall 0.9.8 if 
anyone is familiar with the program.

Please help,

Darrell

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