[James, please fix or have fixed your news to mail gateway - the Newgroups: header should be removed before sending mail.]
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, James Redfern wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:38:15 -0400 (EDT), Charlie Brady > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ¦ I'm curious as to how you thought people would use this package. > > I am running 5.5.2 behind a smoothwall firewall and I am constantly > having to change its configuration as servers/clients behind it > discover a need for this or that port which is not open or not routed > to them. Also, because it is multi-homed and I use a DMZ, I need a > couple of pinholes. My original plan was to use SME server and do > away with smoothwall, but to do that, I have to be prepared to play > with the guts of the OS, rather than the user interface, and which in > any case, could be overwritten later by the SME server which thinks it > has complete control of the configuration. It could be a really > elegant solution if, you or Dungog OR ANYONE, made another little > panel that showed up on admin login and allowed some basic firewall > routing. I have a port forwarding contrib (e-smith-ipportfw) and Darrell May has a similar package which also adds a management panel. I think these might do what you are looking for. Just "opening" ports on the firewall, OTOH, does help your problem of servers/clients behind the firewall. Your posting just emphasises my point that the existence of a port "opening" contrib is confusing. -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lead Product Developer Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com/ Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/ Phone: +1 (613) 592 5660 or 592 2122 Fax: +1 (613) 592 1175 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
