[Gllug] Unable to access web sites via smoothwall

Laurence Turpin laurie.turpin at virgin.net
Tue Sep 17 20:18:26 UTC 2002


Hi Steve,

Thankyou for replying.
Works with windows 98 but not Mandrake 8.2
Must have Mandrake 8.2 set up wrong.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Nicholson" <steve at kiwibum.com>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Unable to access web sites via smoothwall


> > 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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