[linux] [Wolves] Problems with smoothwall adventures

[Wayne Morris]

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 13:58, Jono Bacon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> OK, I went shopping at a computer fair and brought
> back a spanky machine to use as my web server, thus
> relieving my battered machine for the firewall.
> 
> I created the boot floppies and managed to install
> smoothwall fine, but I am experiencing some trouble
> getting the machine on the net. Let me explain:
> 
> I had two cards in there - that are the same model.
> Smoothwall says in the installation that you may need
> to pass it extra parameters to get it working, but I
> dont know what these parameters are. Anyone know?
> 
I've got two cards in mine - worked fine


> Anyway, I started installation and it asked for me to
> configure the GREEN card. I understand that this is
> the card that plugs into the hub, so I probed and it
> found it ok. I set it the IP of 192.168.0.1.
> 
I used 192.168.1.1 but don't think that matters


> After installation I went to networking setup and
> chose to use GREEN + RED. It probed for the RED card
> and cha-ching it was there as the same driver. I then
> configured it to use DHCP as the means of getting the
> IP.
> 
> Anywho, I rebooted and when I am back on, I cant ping
> a site. I did set the DNS nameservers to my telewest
> ones, and I had no idea what to set the gateway to as
> I didnt know what IP the RED card has.
> 

Gateway to set on Lan machines is IP of green card - in your case
192.168.0.1  Set DNS to the same.

> What was strange was when I logged into the box and
> did 'ifconfig', only eth0 came up with it's IP address
> correctly assigned (the GREEN card), but eth1 was not
> there, and when I did 'ifconfig eth1 up' it gave me an
> error. A quick look at dmesg came up with some errors
> indicating some kind of interuppt conflict. Both cards
> are PCI so I thought this was a little unusual.
> 
> Anyway, I tried the setup with an old 3Com ISA card
> which was detected fine but still would'nt come up
> when it was the RED card, and I tried a couple of
> other cards but they were not detected.
> 
> I have had the two same model cards working fine in
> the box, but for some reason this isnt working, and it
> seems that I cant choose which card is GREEN and which
> is RED.
> 
Don't think you can, you just work out which is which.


> Any help would be great as I have one angry Susan
> wanting this sorted out ASAP.

Make sue you can get smoothwall admin page up by browsing to 
http://192.168.0.1:81  then see if the info tab helps you.

You sometimes have to reboot the cable modem and then ths smoothwall in
close proximity so they talk.




> 
>   Jono
> 
> 
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