Dennis; Start by Losing MNF. Dump it completely. It's way too complex a firewall solution for your network. Do a fresh install of Smoothwall, and apply all the updates, then configure Smoothwall for your requirements following the suggestions I sent in my last email.
For your requirments, you can also look at running Mandrake 8.0 and installing Firestarter, Shorewall, Bastille, etc, and run your web-site directly on the firewall system using Apache. Add a larger chunk of Ram, and a decent sized hard drive (10 to 40 Gigs), and you could also run Samba (Windows File Sharing), and ProFTPD (FTP Server) on it without too much hassle. Your life will be much simpler, and you'll have a lot more Free time for important things like BEER or Women! MNF is based on Mandrake 8.2, and customized to work as a firewall/router PLUS a "Front-End" Server for larger networks, and is therefore overly complex for a home network. It also requires a fair amount of maintenance on a regular basis. Kinda like using Thor's hammer to fix your watch! By the sound of your reply, you have more than one Firewall package running on this box. You should consider losing the others, and reverting to an older Mandrake version, or give "E-Smith" a try. Here's the link; http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/e-smith/ It comes with a web-server, email server, DNS, etc included. EZ to install too. Who needs a DMZ when the one box can do it all? A friend of mine has been running E-Smith for about 2 years on a P233MMX with 20 web-sites, 3 FTP servers, 6 email servers with NO downtime. Comes with a web-based interface as well. Might be worth looking at for your system, but MNF is way too heavy for your setup. Just my 2 cents. Lanman >Short on info, sorry. The firewall/router is homebuilt pc running MNF, I >have >had SNF and IPCOP running on it also. The computer is a older SOYO mb >with a >K6II 266 processor running with 128mb sdram. Has two NICs in it and I was >thinking of running another as one of the computers attached is my web >server and I will put that in a DMZ once I figure out what is going >haywire >on me. So for now I am trying to run MNF which has smoothwall as its base. > >Thanks for any feed back and help. I will reexam what I have and see if >that >will get it going. >-- >Dennis M. linux user # 180842 > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Dan LaBine President Maximum Lans [EMAIL PROTECTED] (514) 489-7825 6915 Fielding Ave. Suite # 228 Montreal, Quebec, H4V 1P4
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