[H-GEN] smoothwall - dial on demand

[Hilton Travis]

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On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 10:26, Mick Howe wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:30, you wrote:
> > > when dial on demand is ticked theThat is correct.  "Waiting" would be
> > > when XXX.  "Idle" will be when XXX. CONNECT/DISCONNECT buttons switch
> > > between waiting/idle.
> >
> > Hhmmm - I'm checking into this for you.  You are running SmoothWall
> > 0.9.9 (or 0.9.9SE) I gather?
> 
> SmoothWall 0.9.9SE update level = 7

Cool.  Check my post re: redial attempts exceeded.

Fixes8 out soon, by the way.

> > Ahhh - what is the actual problem - if you can ping Smoothie from the
> > Linux box, then what is the problem?  All you need to do is then to make
> > sure the primary DNS and gateway both point to the Smoothie box, and you
> > should be set.  Use no "proxy" in your browser (unless you have enabled
> > proxy (non-transparent) in Smoothie).
> >
> the problem is that I can't surf or e-mail from linux through smoothwall. 

Looks like a config problem on the RH 7.1 Linux box - if you can connect
to and browse through the firewall on other boxen, it looks like there
is a config issue on the RedHat box.  Subnet/DNS/gateway/something.

Regards,
HiltonT


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