[Wolves] Smoothwall

[Lee Jordan]

Panic over

Cheers for the help guys, it certainly helped me figure out what was going 
on.
I had plugged the RED interface into the hub, without knowing the cards were 
in a different order to what I thought they were, I got to this resolution 
by trying to ping a network machine and got no reply .... doh!

Everything was setup fine in the software, just my stupidity of thinking the 
hub was really connected to the GREEN card, when in fact it wasn't. Windows 
doesn't resolve http://smoothwall ... ah could that be because 192.168.1.1



>From: Adam Sweet <drinky76@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
>To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Wolves] Smoothwall
>Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:13:51 +0100 (BST)
>
>  --- Lee Jordan <leej80@hotmail.com> wrote: > Is
>Smoothie supposed to show up on the network? I
> > have set the GREEN NIC to
> > be 192.168.1.1 and set the gateway on my windows
> > machine (parents machine)
> > to point to the GREEN NIC at 192.168.1.1. Am I doing
> > something horribly
> > wrong, because I still can't reach the web interface
> > on
> > http://192.168.1.1:80 or http://smoothwall:81 from
> > my windows machine
>
>As Jono says this is mostly right, however make sure
>thats :81 and not :80 as you put above. Again as Jono
>says, http://smoothwall:81 fails sometimes, usually in
>Windows, so stick to the IP address. As Re-LoaD says,
>it sounds like dhcp is failing, so in Windows, try
>ipconfig /renew or the Linux equivalent which ahem...
>I don't actually know offhand.
>
>Ultimately you shouldn't have to worry about setting
>dns server or gateway addresses, it will all just work
>when when you get a dhcp lease from your smoothwall.
>
> > DNS : 192.168.1.2 and .3
> > GW : 192.168.1.1
>
>Are you running DNS servers on .2 and .3? Unless you
>are this is very weird. Smoothwall handles DNS
>requests and uses your net connection (although you
>say there isn't one) for ones it can't resolve.
>
>Undo your dns and gateway settings on your client
>machines, set up your smoothwall dhcp settings as per
>the screenshot of my own settings at
>http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~a0083206/other/dhcp.jpg and
>refresh the dhcp lease on the clients as I described
>above.
>
>See if that works. It works for me. Your network cards
>in the smoothwall got picked up by the installation
>process correctly didn't they?
>
>If none of that works, do the idiot checks. Double
>check you're using the right cable ;) I spent 2 months
>of head scratching trying to set up my DMZ then
>remembered it was machine to machine, no switch and I
>was using a straight through cable not a crossover
>*blush*. Double check all cables are seated properly
>and any hubs or switches are ok.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Ad
>
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