Glad to hear it worked. Now it's your turn to help someone else :). Shaun
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 11:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Efw-user] Working with a 2wire adsl modem Just to say thanks to all the people that helped. Shaun's advice was the solution for me. Thanks again. > In transparent mode, users will not authenticate. If you need > authentication, then I think the best way would be to deny direct > outbound access from Green via outbound rules. If users want to surf, > they must use (and authenticate to, if configured) the proxy. > > Shaun > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 6:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Efw-user] Working with a 2wire adsl modem > > I am having some problems to configure a 2wire adsl modem with an Endian > box. > > I've installed Endian on a server for testing purposes. My local network > is a Windows Domain controlled one, I have 5 clients, one MS Windows > 2003 > Std Server acting as Domain Server, I have DHCp for my 5 clients, the > router that the provider is installing is a 2wire modem, 27x series (I > know about the security stuff about this modems, but the ISP (Prodigy) > only supplies this kind of hardware). So, local network, one Endian Box > with two network cards, GREEN + RED, GREEN interface is static ip, RED > interface is static ip. So basically I have: > > LOCAL ENDIAN 2WIRE > NETWORK <---> GREEN BOX RED <---> MODEM <---> INTERNET > (192.168.10.0) (192.168.1.0) > > I've enabled the Proxy service to server for my 5 clients with local > authentication option, the problem arises when I see that one of the > clients is accesing the internet without authenticating against the > proxy, > so I said, Damn! Transparent Proxy. > > After some researching I found that the 2wire modem is a router, so it > is > doing its job routing traffic to internet from my local network :D. > Well, > I did some research and found that I could use my adls modem as just a > bridge and also found that I could configure Endian to do the > authentication job with PPPoE, so I made the configuration, but the > modem > just won't work with Endian, so I ended up going back to normal network > connection with the modem working as a router, but I really need to > authenticate all my traffic. So, after all this sad history :D, my > question is, Is there a way to avoid my users from accessing the > internet > without authenticating against my proxy and leave the 2wire modem acting > as router ? > > Thanks in advance. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > _______________________________________________ > Efw-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ > _______________________________________________ > Efw-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
