I believe your ISP connected side of the firewall should use 192.168.254.2 and 
192.168.254.254 as the default gateway. What's on your side of the firewall is no 
concern of your ISP as long as it does not conflict with your ISP's IP adresses.

This means that your ISP sees your firewall as 192.168.254.2 and that 192.168.254.254 
is a router(and/or firewall) on your ISP's LAN that your firewall routes all outgoing 
traffic to.

On your own LAN you should set up the firewall on any free adress on the 192.168.10.x 
net and all your clients on the lan shouls set that adress as their default 
gateway(router). 

This means that your client sends all it's traffic which is not for the 192.168.10.x 
net through the default router, which is your firewall. The firewall sends all traffic 
not for the 192.168.254.x net through it's default router that is 192.168.254.254. 
192.168.254.254 is propably a firewall that your ISP has since all 192.168.x.x 
addresses are reserved for firewalled-LANs. Or it can be a router that routes the 
packets to some other destination, but somewhere it will reach a firewall at which 
your packages enters the "real" internet.

I hope this helps...

/Bell

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Philip Hickey 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 4:55 PM


  Krister,
  My ISP told me to use 192.168.254.2  for my firewall PC with the NIC connected to 
the web. When STN is running I can ping that PC but I cannot access the web.My ISP 
told me that my Gateway address should be  192.168.254.254 si I'm confused as to what 
he IP address of the STN machine should be  254  or  2 ??  Also when I change the IP 
addr of my client machine to 192.168.254.3  I cannot access my LAN anymore (Unless I 
change it back to 192.168.10.XXX).
  My LAN is just a single LAN.
   
  Regards
  Philip 


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