On Sunday 24 February 2002 04:47 am, Robin wrote: > Quoting myself from 2 or 3 days ago. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > I happened to be just playing with one of my box hoping to make it into > a firewall box in the last few days. It's a 133 with 96MB of RAM. I > tried both Mandrake SNF and Smoothwall on it. I haven't played with it > long enough to be an expert, thus what I know may not be all correct. > With 3 NIC installed, you can setup Smoothwall with a dedicated DMZ. > Both firewall can be managed with web interface, however, with this old > machine I got, Smoothwall seems to generate the pages a bit faster than > SNF. > > One of the problem I had with Smoothwall was with picking the LAN NIC. > About 5 min into installation, a NIC for internal LAN (the green > interface) has to be picked and it cannot be changed without reinstall > (at least I haven't figured out how). If the card you want is not auto > detected, you will have to pick from a list, not a problem if you have 3 > identical NIC. I had 2 different kind of NIC and it kept picking the one > I didn't want. Also, I don't know if this is the NIC module problem or > something else, when I put 2 3Com 509b in the machine, I can only get > one to work with both firewall. > --------------------------------------------------------
If you have two or more network cards in your computer, you may need to add an append statement to your /etc/lilo.conf file to describe the IRQ and address of both cards. My lilo append statement looks like this: append="ether=12,0x300,eth0 ether=15,0x340,eth1" 12 and 15 being the irq and 300 and 340 the base IO address You may need to add the third cad something like append="ether=12,0x300,eth0 ether=15,0x340,eth1 ether=irq,base_io,eth2" Earlier in one of my systems I had to recompile the kernel to recognize multiple NICs -- Gerald Waugh
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