[ale] Smoothwall, a dedicated Linux firewall, installation......

[Dennis Ruzeski]

I would say a typical configuration for you would be to set up
smoothwall with it's standard red/green 2 interface config. If you
have enough space enable squid.

Plug the green interface into your hub/switch and the red into your
internet provider's device. I'd recommend using the DHCP on
smoothwall. It will set up your DNS and gateway entries based on what
it gets (via dhcp) from your internet provider.

As far as the wireless router, you'll have to disable the internet
connection and basically use it in access point mode. Make sure you
enable MAC filtering and use WPA or better security. There's WPA
supplicants for most implementations available for linux at this
point. WEP is ok, but I can crack a 128-bit WEP key usually in 7-12
minutes and that means that other people can, too.

That's the basics. although you left alot of variables open in your
email. If this doesn't suit your needs just reply back with more
details.



On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Courtney Thomas
<courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to install Smoothwall, a dedicated Linux firewall OS, on an old
> machine that had a couple of network cards [ISA & PCI] which were found by
> Smoothwall and seem to be functional though both apparently use IRQ 10.
>
> I don't know how to set up the hardware to accomplish the following:
>
> I'm currently using a wireless router so non-linux users can get on the web,
> though I also have an ethernet hub I'd  like to integrate into an overall
> network without buying wireless adapters for all the unices, as they were
> all ethernet enabled when dialup was used and probably don't support
> wireless anyway.
>
> I'd like to be able to use any sort of machine, Apple, Windows, FreeBSD,
> Linux,.....
>
> Can I interconnect the wireless router and ethernet hub so that all the.....
> previously mentioned non-windows machines without wireless adapters..... can
> also access the web ? If yes, HOW  :-)
>
> Are there various ways to accomplish this  ?  If yes, what's the simplest
> and what advantage is there to the other(s) ?
>
> Finally, when I get through, how should I set up Smoothwall ?  Please
> include as much detail as you're willing.
>
> Gratefully,
>
> Courtney
>
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