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 >>> jack at jacku.com 9/25/01 9:40:37 PM >>> On Tuesday 25 September 2001 15:20, you wrote: > Do you know if smoothwall will work with At&t's network. Someone was > telling me that at&t doesn't play well with linux. Although I don't know > what the issue is.......... do's anyone know???? > FWIW I've had an AT&T cable modem connection for about a year now and I have a simple masquarading firewall/router running (Kernel is 2.2.16 using ipchains) It works like a champ. I've had no problems with the firewall box itself, an old PB "Force" early P1 (75Mhz maybe). The only suggestion I have is if you have a dual-boot box available setup the NIC you intend to use under Windows and let the installer do his thing there. Then pull the card put into your firewall/router box and go. Also I suggest getting you own card and making sure it works in your firewall box before they come. Good Luck! -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com _______________________________________________ tclug-list mailing list tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list