[Gllug] Unable to access web sites via smoothwall

[Steve Nicholson]

> I have installed smoothwall 0.98 on a P100 system, I have an external modem

version .99 is the latest gpl version, Shouldn't matter.

> which is just an ordinary 3com fax modem.
> the smoothwall system is connected to my home network. When I go into a web
> browser from a client machine, I can get the smoothwall administration pages
> and have been able to set it up so that dial up and connect to my ISP
> successfully, Hangup and shutdown smoothwall.
> The problem is when smoothwall is up and running and I have connected to my
> ISP I cannot use the web browser to visit web sites. So for example if I try
> to go to www.bbc.co.uk I get the message that the host I requested cannot be
> found. The same thing happens if I try to ping a web site on the internet. I
> have tried setting the DNS and Gateway options on the client machine to the
> smoothwall ip address but it still does not work.

1st have you had a look through the PDF doc on installation and FAQ?

1.from smoothwall (SW) can you ping www.bbc.co.uk? Meaning logged in from SW console.
2. for the SW admin pages under "services" "external serivce access" make sure tcp 80 is enabled (it should be by default).

Only things I can think of checking at the moment.

I think Smoothwall is a classic on how not to treat newbies, as great as the product is you get treated like poison ivy on the mailing list if you ask a simple question.  And I see they still refuse to archive the list which would make a great resource and cut down on the simple questions so new users would have a resource to look through.

Steve.

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