[ale] I've hit a rough wall, installin' Smoothwall :-)

[Dennis Ruzeski]

You're going to have to leave the wireless router's internet
connection unplugged and use it in 'access point' mode. It's possible
to set them up in line and have 2 layers of NAT, but I certainly
wouldn't reccommend it.

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Courtney Thomas
<courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Season's Greetings  !
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> My current dilemma is............
>
> Accessing the web, I can NOW either have,
>    a Smoothwall firewall box with NICs,
>        OR
>            a Windows box with a wireless card,
> but not both simultaneously.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> The setup for the Smoothwall box's web access [see Next Hyphenated section]
> is RED & GREEN,
> i.e. has two NICs connected to the wireless router's ethernet ports.
>
> For the Windows box to succeed in web access is to unplug Smoothwall's
> ethernet cables from the
> wireless router, else they fail to connect.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The Smoothwall configuration is:
>
>    ifconfig
>                    eth0    192.168.1.1
>                    eth1    192.168.2.201
>                    lo        127.0.0.1
>
> route -n
>                    192.168.1.1            0.0.0.0
> 255.255.255.255            UH            eth0
>                    192.168.2.201        0.0.0.0
> 255.255.255.255            UH            eth1
>                    192.168.2.0            0.0.0.0
> 255.255.255.0                U               eth1
>                    192.168.1.0            0.0.0.0
> 255.255.255.0                U               eth0
>                    0.0.0.0                    192.168.1.254    0.0.0.0
> UG            eth0
>
> hostname smoothie    =    192.168.1.254
>
> DHCP Server ->    disabled
>
> Default Security    ->    open [for now]
>
> Network Configuration type ->    Green + Red
>
> Driver & Cards
>                            Green = Digital tulip                      eth0
> 192.168.1.254
>                            Red    = RealTek RTL 8129/39    eth1    DHCP
> hostname = bellsouth.net
>
> DNS & Gateway
>                            dns nameservers = 205.152.37.23, 205.152.144.23
>                            gateway             = 192.168.1.254
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> My goal is:
>
>     to have all the computers having only NICs and no wireless cards that
> were on the former ethernet LAN,
>     which include Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Apple, etc.....as well as a few
> machines that now have wireless cards,
>    ALL be protected by Smoothwall.
>
> How can I attach an ethernet hub so that...
>         machines without wireless cards, i.e. only NICs,
>                ...and... the wireless enhanced Windows boxes....
> ALL be protected by the wireless router, a Linksys Broadband-B 2.4 Gig with
> 4 ethernet ports and 1 internet  ?
>
>
>
> Any references that resolve this situation would need to be elementary as I
> obviously don't know what I'm doing   :-(
> just what I want to do  :-)
>
>
> Thanks to any and all,
>
> Courtney
>
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