Do you think you could help me out for one minute? I have a small problem with smoothwall. My question is this, I cant get out to the net from my network. I can go to the smooth wall box and ping the work friom it but can't from anyother box. All the boxs on the local entwork can see eachother and even see the smooth box, but nothing out. I know very little about gateways and nat ..... etc so I have not clue on how to set up port forwarding ..ect. I have been reading but not sure how to get it to work with dhcp from my isp. smoothwall IP's DHCP and internal 192.168.1.1(green). The etc/host file has only 2 entries, 1 localhost 127.... 2nd 192.168.1.1 should there not be another entry for the DHCP from my ISP? what should it be? It's DHCP so I can't hard code it..... also if I do a route -n it only gives me the internal network IP 192.168.1.1, should there not be another entry for the DHCP? so it knows where to route outgoing request? Rodney Ray Children's Hospital and Clinics Data Warehouse Developer 651-855-2560 rodney.ray at childrenshc.org >>> dieman+tclug at ringworld.org 9/25/01 11:01:21 PM >>> * Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> [010925 22:59]: > Better to have seperate boxes. I think you get the router from ATT, you won't No, you dont. You get one ip on somehting more like a bridge. Remember to call AT&T if you change your external NIC so they can update their records. TW doesn't reuqire you do this. I would smack a box with Mandrake Security on it inbetween your machine and the net :) Ive seen this a couple times so far and im pretty impressed for 'i dont want to mess with shit, just give me a firewall' setups. Otherwise debian+2.4.x+netfilter is cool. -- Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> <sdier at debian.org> http://www.ringworld.org/ #linuxos at irc.openprojects.net "History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure." - Justice Thurgood Marshall (1989) _______________________________________________ tclug-list mailing list tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list