Just out of curiosity, what is the size of Smoothwall and or IPcop?
Kevin Anderson wrote:
And how does IPcop "feel" compared to Smoothwall?
Kev.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jarrod Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) SmoothWall help
Hey Guys,
Just wanted to drop a quick note to let you know that I got IPCop
downloaded, verified and installed. Recognized the cards right off the
bat.
Your guess is as good as mine as to why the SmoothWall install failed.
Anyway, wanted to report a success. The end config is as follows:
Dell P233
64 Mb SDRAM
1 Gb HD
SMC Ethernet 10BaseT NIC
RealTek 8139 10/100BaseT NIC
Red & Green setup
Now the fun of phasing out my old Gateway...
Jarrod Major
CLUG Treasurer
Registered Linux User: #224211
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jarrod Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) SmoothWall help
Hey Kev,
It appears that they have been patching it. I'm not sure when the last
patch
was posted but I do have all the ones that needed to be applied to
SmoothWall. I think I will have to give IPcop a go for sure. It seems
that
these guys have taken the torch and run with it.
I'll post my results to the list.
Thanks again guys!
Jarrod
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) SmoothWall help
The fork is called IPcop.
I haven't done much more than see either, but it might help.
Smoothwall
GPL
seemed old, the last time I checked. Not that that is a bad thing,
but
it
made me worry that they weren't really supporting it anymore.
Kev.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jarrod Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) SmoothWall help
Hey Doug, Jason, Kevin and Graham,
I am using SmoothWall GPL 0.9.9 SE and I have the patches for it as
well.
Yes I believe it has been forked but this is the most recent stable
GPL
version. There is a beta but I wanted to stay away from that for
now.
Kevin I believe the Fork is one they are charging for so I don't
think
that
will do. If you find something that is still GPL let me know.
Yes, we had tried setting SmoothWall up with only one NIC in at a
time
to
see if we could isolate it. This also did not work.
Thanks for the link Doug, I may try LRP but I wanted something
robust
enough
to handle some tricky stuff. The P90 and P166 only have about 32Mb
RAM
so
I'm not sure if they would be able to run LRP. The P233 has 64MB and
appears
to be a more likely candidate. I may check this out.
Good questions and suggestions guys.
BTW, Graham, I too have heard that RealTek's can be flaky but I have
used
them in all my computers and they seem to work fine. If you want to
check
your DLink card to find out whether it is a RealTek card it should
be
fairly
obvious, the chip should have rtl followed by either 8129 or 8139 on
it
for
the 10BaseT or 10/100BaseT respectively. I know that some cards by a
particular manufacturer spontaneously change chipmakers during the
course
of
a NIC card's lifespan. It starts out as a RealTek then they get
something
else. So when you think you using a card that has good Linux support
for
a
particular chipset and the manufacturer changes you are hooped. I
always
check my hardware. The better support sites not only list the
hardware
but
even go so far as to list chipsets to offset this issue.
Jarrod
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Monk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) SmoothWall help
Jarrod Major wrote:
I decided to try my hand at making a home firewall/gateway.
SmoothWall
seemed to be the distro of choice. I had two computers that were
likely
candidates for the job an IBM Aptiva P166 and a Packard Bell P90.
Both
still
very serviceable. I also have a small collection of Linux-proven
NIC's
that
I thought would work just fine in this application.
After several attempts on these two boxes, I ended up picking up
a
Dell
Pentium 233. This computer also seems to not want to take to
installing
SmoothWall. I have checked the SmoothWall site for hardware
compatibility
and the NIC's for the most part appear to be supported. Here's a
list
of
what I have and the Linux driver module typically used:
PCI
RealTek 8139 10/100 - rtl8139
RealTek 8129 10 BaseT - ne2k-pc / ne2k / ne
SMC EtherPower - tulip
ISA
Intel EtherExpress 16 - eexpress
3Com ?? - ??
All three computers will get to the Green NIC probe phase and
fail.
The
probe will not autodetect the cards. I have gone into manual mode
and
given
it the appropriate module, IO and IRQ. All to no avail. These
cards
have
all
worked under Windows not very long ago and some have even run
perfectly
fine
under other distributions of Linux. I am very careful with my
hardware
so
I
cannot believe that they could all be bad.
The ISO I used for burning my SmoothWall disc was checked against
the
MD5
Checksum and it was verified.
I cannot believe that three computers would all refuse to take
this
install
with various NIC's in place. I enlisted Marcel's help and he
could
not
overcome my install issues either. We're both stymied.
Anyone have any experience they'd like to share or any advice?
Thanks
in
advance.
As an aside, we even attempted to throw OpenBSD on one of the
boxes
and
it
crapped out almost immediately. We were pretty tired at this
point
so
we
did
not delve too deeply into this install. It was a floppy/FTP
install.
Jarrod Major
CLUG Treasurer
Registered Linux User: #224211
Hi Jarrod
I fear I may make myself look stupid here but anyway,
I had problems with smoothwall myself using Dlink cards
which are supposed to use realtek chips but do something weird
with them. I found that startec S100 works well.
Suggestion,.... Try installing with only one card ( first one then
the
other)
This should at least isolate which card is causing problems,
assuming
this is not something you have allready tried.
Graham
