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

[Courtney Thomas]

Geoffrey,

Either  :-)

i.e. how can a SmoothWall installer be certain that...
     all  internet activity, both sending & receiving,
is actually being processed by SmoothWall  .....

rather than...
     ONLY going directly in/out the wireless router,
     not being processed by SmoothWall at all   ?

Courtney



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoffrey" <lists at serioustechnology.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] I've hit a rough wall, installin' Smoothwall :-)


> Courtney Thomas wrote:
>> 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 ?
>
> I'm not sure if you're referring to my setup or yours.  In my
> configuration, nothing can get to the internet unless it goes through my
> smoothwall firewall.
>
> for example:
>
> internet <-> smoothwall <-> switch <-> wireless router <-> laptop
>
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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