I have seen a lot of postings about people complaining that they cannot install or configure Endian Firewall community 2.0
I had similar problems on a prticular machine at the office, while on another machine I had no problems whatsoever. So to give back to the community that has given me this great firewall, I'd like to offer this simple Howto out of my experience with Endian Firewall, a really great piece of software. Endian Firewall Community 2 is a complete Linux distro bundled with firewall and proxy software that you install on a sacrificial PC with LAN and WAN adapters. To install: 1. Download the ISO image from http://www.endian.it/en/community/download/iso/ 2. Then burn the ISO image onto a blank CD with CD burning software like Nero 3. Put the CD into your sacrificial PC (Note everything on the PC is wiped off), and boot from the CD. NOTE: Some PC BIOS'es do not want to read the interleaving on the CD correctly. Dont worry, if it happens you need to download Smart Boot Manager, a tiny Floppy boot software that will allow you to boot from the CD. You can find it here: http://btmgr.webframe.org/download.html#binary) Simply download the files, go to the command prompt (dos) and use the exe to make the disk. Insert the disk into the sacrificial PC and boot from the stiffy, now select CDROM and it will continue to boot the EFW cd as usual. 4. Answer all the questions, make sure you specify and note the IP address of the GREEN interface, as well as your passwords. Note the install is different from IpCop in that everything is not specified during the install - dont worry you can change everything in the web-based management. After you have answered all the questions the PC reboots and confronts you with a linux login. This is where you will need a second PC. 5. Connect a cross-over cable between your EFW PC and your setup PC running your favorite internet browser, or alternatively use an ethernet switch with two straight ethernet cables. 6. Open a command prompt and ping the GREEN interface IP address you specified during install. If nothing happens, it means that the install has assigned that IP address to a different card. For those familiar with Linux - forget about using ifconfig to determine which card it is - EFW uses br0 (bridge) for the Green interface, but you cannot see in the command line to which card it is linked. Therefore, by trial and error, try each LAN card until the ping is successful. 7. Now open your internet browser and go to the setup URL: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx or alternatively https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:10443 where the bunch of x'es is the IP address of your Green interface that you were able to ping successfully. 8. The default username is "admin" and the password is that which you specified during the install. 9. Go to the Network Configuration on the left menu and go through the process to select which adapter you want as which IP etc. >From here on the online manual is pretty useful. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/EFW-Endian-Firewall-community-2-installation-for-newbies-tf2234685.html#a6195369 Sent from the efw-user forum at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
