[ale] I've hit a rough wall, installin' Smoothwall :-)

[Courtney Thomas]

Geoffrey,

My apologies for the garbled question. I was interrupted and failed to 
refocus on returning  :-(

What I meant to ask was:
    how can it be determined that all a given machine's activity is actually 
going through SmoothWall,
    rather than accessing the web directly through the wireless router ?

Thanks for your patience,

Courtney


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoffrey" <lists at serioustechnology.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] I've hit a rough wall, installin' Smoothwall :-)


> Courtney Thomas wrote:
>> Geoffrey,
>>
>> How'd you turn off NAT on your Linksys router ?
>
> This is a WRT300N and from the web interface:
>
> Setup->advanced routing
>
> There is a option to disable NAT.
>
>> Also, how do you know a given machine is accessing the web under the 
>> aegis
>> of the wireless router
>> rather than directly browsing the web through the router  ?
>
> I'm not sure I understand the question.  In my situation, everything has
> to eventually go through smoothwall.  I do not rely on any security
> within the wireless router from the perspective of my internal network.
>
>
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Courtney
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Geoffrey" <lists at serioustechnology.com>
>> To: <ale at ale.org>
>> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 7:57 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ale] I've hit a rough wall, installin' Smoothwall :-)
>>
>>
>>> Courtney Thomas wrote:
>>>> Season's Greetings  !
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>> My current dilemma is............
>>>>
>>>> Accessing the web, I can NOW either have,
>>>>     a Smoothwall firewall box with NICs,
>>>>         OR
>>>>             a Windows box with a wireless card,
>>>> but not both simultaneously.
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> The setup for the Smoothwall box's web access [see Next Hyphenated
>>>> section]
>>>> is RED & GREEN,
>>>> i.e. has two NICs connected to the wireless router's ethernet ports.
>>>>
>>>> For the Windows box to succeed in web access is to unplug Smoothwall's
>>>> ethernet cables from the
>>>> wireless router, else they fail to connect.
>>> I'm not sure I follow what you're trying to do.  Here is my setup and it
>>> works great:
>>>
>>> internet <-> smoothwall <-> switch <-> wireless router
>>>
>>> All my wireless stuff connects via the wireless router and get dhcp info
>>> from smoothwall.  All my wired stuff is connected to the switch 
>>> directly.
>>>
>>> I accomplish this by turning off nat on my linksys router, and all works
>>> fine.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>>
>>> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
>>> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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