Firewall Adventure part2
Armo
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well after getting my peices i realized exactly how small this unit was. wow did i pick a small one, lol
http://www.custompc.co.uk/custompc/reviews/75164/aopen-xc-cube-mz855ii.html
the kit came with a heatsink and fan, powersupply, dangerously exposed under the top cover thing, a front white bezle for a laptop cd-rom drive.
it was pretty easy to put it together, i give it about a 7 on the complete n00b giude
so as far as smoothwall, it took me about 3 installs to figure out what i was doing and about 3 more to figure out what i was doing was wrong. the production version Smoothwall 2.0 couldnt detect my onboard gigabit, rut roh...
after talking to some of the smoothwall guys on the net they told me i could try some crazy linux plug in called SmartKernal, or build my own drivers, being the linux guru i am i opted for the third method, try the alpha release of 3.0 and pray it works.
lucky for me i did, and once i got it set up the way i wanted with both green and red interfaces, i hooked it up and gae it a shot, it was only then i realized i completly screwed up the green interfaces IP address and NOTHING was gonna get through the router.. so that was another install, theres another intall again after that one untill i finally got the smoothwall box working with anything plugged from the green to a switch to the PC.
that left only the router, which with a switch in the mix made it basicly a WAP.. so with some help from bud about configuring the router to be basibly a WAP runthrough, everything seems to be working.
impressions of smoothwall:
very nice considering the size of the install, like 45 megs, color me impressed. one you get the kernel and interfaces configed, its ALL done through a secure weblink https://(ip or name):441
so it took about 10-13 installs to get the Stargate(tm) working with port forwarding and everything, DHCP, eb proxy, SNORT IDS, you name it ~~!
\\edit\\ thats no the front bezel that comes with the case, i sto... aquired a beige one and the bezle dosnt fit it.
http://www.custompc.co.uk/custompc/reviews/75164/aopen-xc-cube-mz855ii.html
the kit came with a heatsink and fan, powersupply, dangerously exposed under the top cover thing, a front white bezle for a laptop cd-rom drive.
it was pretty easy to put it together, i give it about a 7 on the complete n00b giude
so as far as smoothwall, it took me about 3 installs to figure out what i was doing and about 3 more to figure out what i was doing was wrong. the production version Smoothwall 2.0 couldnt detect my onboard gigabit, rut roh...
after talking to some of the smoothwall guys on the net they told me i could try some crazy linux plug in called SmartKernal, or build my own drivers, being the linux guru i am i opted for the third method, try the alpha release of 3.0 and pray it works.
lucky for me i did, and once i got it set up the way i wanted with both green and red interfaces, i hooked it up and gae it a shot, it was only then i realized i completly screwed up the green interfaces IP address and NOTHING was gonna get through the router.. so that was another install, theres another intall again after that one untill i finally got the smoothwall box working with anything plugged from the green to a switch to the PC.
that left only the router, which with a switch in the mix made it basicly a WAP.. so with some help from bud about configuring the router to be basibly a WAP runthrough, everything seems to be working.
impressions of smoothwall:
very nice considering the size of the install, like 45 megs, color me impressed. one you get the kernel and interfaces configed, its ALL done through a secure weblink https://(ip or name):441
so it took about 10-13 installs to get the Stargate(tm) working with port forwarding and everything, DHCP, eb proxy, SNORT IDS, you name it ~~!
\\edit\\ thats no the front bezel that comes with the case, i sto... aquired a beige one and the bezle dosnt fit it.
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