[H-GEN] smoothwall - dial on demand

[Mick Howe]

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On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:06, you wrote:
> > > 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.
>
I now have dial on demand working as I expect it to.

Would you be so kind as to humour me and itemise the config changes needed by 
file as I am a bit green in this aspect of Linux/Networking.

thanks in advance

/\/\ick

 

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