Smoothwall Notes
Smoothwall is a really easy to setup linux based firewall.
Some notes:
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Text Editor - it doesn't have pico installed, but it does have jpico! It ain't pico, but it's still miles ahead of Vim. =)
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Smoothwall port is HTTPS 441 as of version 2.
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Smoothwall doesn't read MS-DOS based floppies, "vfat". So, if you need to put custom files on your Smoothwall, use scp (via ssh) or use another Linux box to create an ext2 formatted floppy.
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both http://martybugs.net/smoothwall/ and http://www.QuarkAV.com/ have a lot of SmoothWall information - all unofficial and unsupported, but it is there! - from deja.
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to keep time syncronized:
ntpdate is included in smoothwall. Just add:
# ntpdate -su
into a cron job. - from deja.
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I was commissioned to create a little modification to smoothwall to accept host names in the firewall rules (to support remote Dynamic DNS IP addressses!) So have a look at My Smoothwall Dynamic DNS mod.
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Change WAN AKA External AKA RED IP Address - SSH in as root, run "setup"
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iptables --list
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iptables --list -t nat -n
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Start up the red interface manually via SSH: /etc/rc.d/rc.netaddress.down; /etc/rc.d/rc.netaddress.up
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