Making a HW firewall??

jabberwock

Hi all

so I have an old 486. got 32mb ram and a gig hdrive. cdrom and floopy. 10/100 card and I have to get a different modem(can't use my old winmodem, can I??)

so i want to make it into a firewall with Smoothwall, more than likely unless there are better opptions?

I've installed it but got as far as the login and what? next?

would appreicate any help or suggestions

J

Cake Fiend

Have you read the manual?

What exactly are you having trouble with?

jabberwock

ya. i'm just trying to get it set-up.
looking for any alternatives aswell.
with looking around I seen stuff about Coyote linux based firewall on a floppy disk???
using something like this on my 500mhz pc could be an idea. it has w2k and i don't want to wipe it. so the floppy boot-up could be good.

the manual says that when you set-up smoothwall and reboot that the web server will be running. nut what is the craic with the login? have gone into setup and root, fair enough. what do I do next? my other machines do get their ips and can ping the firewall but I can't see the webserver.

Jaden

Try

IpCop

Like Smoothwall, but better.

jabberwock

a download a iso of ipcop but it was corrupted. will try again fro elsewher though i guess.

jim_bob

you can configure it from a web brower just put in the ip address and port you set it too on an another machine and do it that way.

zAbbo

RTFM

IPCop/smoothwall its all good

Seriously read the manual, saves dumb threads like these

jabberwock

ya i think they both use the same idea.
the problem with the smoothwall was i couldn't get the webserver going.

Capt'n Midnight

If there are less than 5 users on the inside have a look at gnatbox lite - has a web interface.

http://www.gta.com/products/gblight/

jabberwock

Mr. Hand, please go to your nearest hardware store and purchase some lumber, some nails and a hammer and build yourself a nice bridge.
Once you've done that please feel free to have a stroll over it.

smoothwall express comes with a basic installation pdf and i have read this thoroughly.

I am as much looking for alternative to the likes of smoothwall as i am looking for help with setting it up.

thank you
Jabberwock

Cake Fiend

IIRC Smoothwall runs its https webserver on port 441 (check the manual to make sure), so you should be able to access it through:

https://192.168.0.1:441

assuming it has set its own IP to 192.168.0.1. You might have to do this from one of the machines on the 'Green' (internal net) interface.

jabberwock

ya, tried that. it's in the manual

what happens is when i reboot the firewall, i get a login prompt.
can get into 'setup' and 'root' but can't get into 'admin'?
or is that what i should be doing?

and yes i have tried and retried multiple logins/passwords...

any ideas?

Rev Hellfire

have you tried reading the manual ?