[H-GEN] smoothwall - dial on demand

[Hilton Travis]

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On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 10:01, Mick Howe wrote:
> 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

Hi Mick,

I don't know what you have done, so do not know what exactly you are
after.  Basically, the easiest thing to to is to have SmoothWall act as
a DHCP server and config your Linux box to act as a DHCP client, then it
will get all the right settings.  Do not configure a proxy in the RedHat
web browser (unless you are not running Transparent Proxy on Smoothie),
and it should work fine.

Regards,
HiltonT


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