Hello All,
Just gone on to Broadband 30 days ago so I decided it was time to have a home network with RJ45 cable instead of wireless with all its problems also I have introduced a hardware firewall (Smoothwall )
http://www.smoothwall.org which is very secure.
My set-up > BT phone line ( about 4Kl from the exchange as we live in a village ) > ADSL > Speedtouch 536v6 Router with RJ45 > to the 'red' Nic of my Smoothwall box (firewall)> From the 'Green' Nic of smoothwall to a LAN switch > then to between 1 to 10 computers with W2Kpro,W2K adv server , Linux, XP.. OS.
Well as some of you can tell from this set-up is I'm 'Double Natting' Which for most things like surfing the net is ok, But it is causing me trouble with OLE and http emails, also with connecting to my Daughters school 'Citrx'server to do her homework.
I want to use the 'free' router I got when is joined up with Eclipse ISP (who I can recommend )
From the settings (
http://www.speedtouch.co.uk/downloads/solution/CustomTemplate54.pdf Page 6-10 ) you can configure it to work on private without Nat ( I have it on Private with Nat) .
I wanted to know if anybody has used these settings on this type of router.
I have tried to set it up in this none Natting mode and seemed to get it to connect to the internet (using the "check connectivity to the Internet" button on the router ) then plugged it into my firewall and rebooted both and from the routing table off smothie (see blow) it seemed to connect up ?. But I could not get the Internet onto my LAN.
Routing:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
239.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
I can ping my router from the LAN side computers.
Can any one see what I'm doing wrong ?.
Regards Michael.