Re: firewall options
>>>>> "john" == john gennard <joney@clara.co.uk> writes:
john> There are a number of 'annoying' things with Smoothwall despite
john> a lot of write ups. A ppp profile was partly configured in the
john> setup and my moden was identified as being on 'COM1'. No changes
john> can be made to a profile 'while RED is active' and I can't find
john> how to deactivate the channel without going well back into the
I helped a friend set up Smoothwall for his ADSL connection.
On the first tab, there is a button that allows you to deactivate the
RED interface.
Smoothwall has a reasonably good (but rather terse) configuration
manual. It is separate from the installation manual.
Most of the configuration can be done with a browser.
john> Any suggestions what I should consider doing? Whichever way I
john> proceed, I shall need help in configuring my boxes to 'go
john> through the firewall' to get email, download data and browse
john> etc.
I have a Debian box set up as a router/firewall.
Short configuration guide:
- install a minimal Debian system
- activate IP Masquerading
- install the ipmasq package
- use netstat -a to find all open network ports and remove packages
you don't need (especially inetd)
Ipmasq will configure masquerading. You should need only a minimal
amount of configuration, unless you want to run some services on the
firewall. (The package uses a set of shell scripts that are reasonably
simple once you figure it out.)
On the internal machines, you only need to set the DNS addresses and
you're set. The firewall will relay all traffic as expected, while
blocking incoming connections.
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