brucer425

looks like your not connecting to a dhcp server try setting a ip in for your card and see if that works could be just a bad cable.

put shorewall on it can redirect and you can easily setting your blocking and make the rest your network secure

Install 9.2MDK make sure iptables is on I would add squid to the server as it will speed up pages that are constantly being used. Adding smoothwall will also make it quicker then the standard firewall package and more secure Smoothwall site has a setup configs right on there site for a 2 card system and good writeups You should use a 3 card if you run a web server or ftp server at the site Up and running in about 1- 2 hours hope this might help

I have squid, shorewall and content filtering running on 23 servers at various locations never had a problem. have you checked your local network range in your acl in squid have you checked to see if you are turning on logging maybe the log file is full. also clearing the cache does always clear the dns cache. Also could be a shorewall problem with the port 3128 then appears to be squid but its shorewall Hope this helps

to add Squid install squid package or download the squid tar from Squids site and install. It sets its self up to default from the install after that you can tune it. Webmin works great for tuning Squid. hope this helps if u need further help will be only to glad to try.

Michel Tried that shorewall only handle traffic incoming that you wish to send to a port that you can spec is what I get from my reading or did I read wrong :unsure: Thanks for the suggestion though Brucer425

Hi I have been researching this for about 2 weeks Current firewall setup used is Mandrake 8.2,transparent content filter (Dansguardian), squid and Shorewall at 12 schools on Idsn connections (it runs Great) I have it running on IdSN conections but I have 12 satelite locations where I need to setup my firewall to connect to the satellite reciever This will be done with a crossover to port 9377 at a given ip 10.10.10.10. I can't get reliable connection because I don't know how to assign the ip:port as the gateway or route or ??? Squid I know doesn't handle any port forwarding, Shorewall doesn't handle outgoing ports so HELP Any suggestions sure would be appreciated Thanks the grumpy_old_tech

I have been researching this for about 4 weeks Currenting the firewall setup is using: Mandrake 8.2, transparent content filter (Dansguardian), Squid setup for caching Shorewall 2 card config an internal network of 10.196.64.0 and external to the ip assign by the Sat company I have this running at ISDN conections (runs great) but I have 12 satelite locations (some 2 way and other just downlinks modem up) where I need to setup my firewall computer to connect to the satellite reciever (a Windows box) via crossover to port 9302 or port 85 at a given ip lets say 192.168.0.254 Squid doesn't handle port forwarding, shorewall can only handle incoming ports Any suggestions on how to do have my traffic all go out thru this port Thanks Brucer425 Any suggestions would be appreciated as I have tried everything that I can think of ..

Nice presentation! I just went thru all of that in the last 24 hrs, except the printer config. Seems like a pretty straighforward install process, so far. I went back to my XP partition to get my modem settings. Do I need 8bits, 1 stop bit and 1(or0) parity? LOL Been a while since I messed with hardware setups, as you can tell. I read that Mozilla is in the KDE package. Maybe I'll try to get that set up, since I use Firebird on the XP partition. Thanks again for a comprehensive and useful post! Al joker

Got the latest distro from LinuxCentral yesterday, along with "Linux in a Nutshell". Already had Ext2 and WORKSPACE partitions created with PartitionMagic 8.0, when the machine was brand new from Gateway (M305XL). First install went smooth except that I opted to make WinXP Pro my default OS, and the MBR on the Windows side was not updated. So I had 9.2 installed but no way to access it, except for the boot/install disc. I used the Recover mode to delete all the directories/files with rm -d -f and reinstalled this morning, making sure to make Linux my default OS. Voila! On reboot the bootloader brought up a nice screen with Linux at the top and Windows at the bottom, for me to select the OS I want at the moment. I loaded about 2GB of MDK 9.2 stuff, so I started setting up. Looked at KDE and Gnome (opted for Gnome), and decided to set up an internet connection. That's where the problems started. It appears that the modem is detected but is classified as an Unknown, although it's ID'd correctly as an Intel model. The same is true for my Sony USB2 floppy drive(when I tried to make a recovery disk). For now it seems that tweaking the hardware setups, and perhaps getting the right drivers for the modem and USB floppy are in order. I'll worry about getting a printer setup later. I still use my old desktop for printing, even on the Win XP Pro side of this laptop.(it's only a few weeks old) Any suggestions for getting the modem and USB2 floppy recognized? Here's the apropos 'Detected Hardware' list: UNKNOWN/OTHER Intel 82801DB AC (modem) Module: Unknown Bus ID: 8086:24c6:144f:1050 Location on Bus: 0:1f:6 Description: 80281DB AC Media Class: Comm Modem (similar for USB floppy) USB CONTROLLERS IntelCorp 82801DB USB2 Vendor: Linux 2.4.22-10mdk ehci_hcd Bus: USB Description:INTEL CORP 82801DB USB2 Module: Unknown Media Class: Hub/Root Hub Any pointers appreciated! Regards, Al :)