[ncolug] Re: Endian Firewall Question

  • From: Michael Goracke <mgoracke@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:34:59 -0400

I got it up and running. I connected it to my router (DHCP Disabled)
instead of the switch and it's working fine.

Hey Mike K.; Was the network monitoring command that you were talking
about "iftop"? I'm trying to run it on the console and it's not found.
Do I need to install it somehow?

Mike G.



On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 12:03 -0400, Michael Goracke wrote:
> I changed the router IP to 192.168.1.7 and turned off DHCP before
> installing.
>  I reinstalled Endian and was able to get to the set up wizard again
> through the web browser but it acts like it doesn't finish applying the
> changes (step 7). I'm able to log on to the console with the new root
> password but still can't access the web interface.
>  I "redownloaded" the ISO and burned it again thinking maybe I had bad
> media and still get the same results.
>  I'm going to try using a different switch this evening and see if maybe
> that's the culprit.
> 
> 
> Mike G.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 08:33 -0400, Michael Knisely wrote:
> > Sounds like when you associated the network cards the interface you were 
> > using to get to it was assigned to the "RED" interface.
> > 
> > You should be able to ping the inside interface by default.  Also, you 
> > should be able to web to the internal IP directly.
> > 
> > Does Endian hand out your addresses on you LAN?  If so, are you getting 
> > a DHCP server with the right IP?
> > 
> > Next up, what address space are you handing out?  Might it be that you 
> > have another device on your network that is using the same IP address? 
> > For example, if you setup your Endian box to be 192.168.1.1 and you have 
> > a Linksys router that also thinks that it is 192.168.1.1 on it's LAN 
> > interface the one that ARPs back to you that it own 192.168.1.1 is the 
> > one that you will try to get to.  Since you can't ping the address nor 
> > web into it, I doubt this is the issue, but I figure I'd ask anyway.
> > 
> > Mike K.
> > 
> > Michael Goracke wrote:
> > >  I've installed Endian 2.1.2 on a 800 MHz PIII, 512 MB's of RAM and two
> > > network cards (one NetGear and one Linksys to avoid confusion). I have
> > > it connected to the network via a Linksys 16 port workgroup switch (not
> > > using the "uplink" port). 
> > > 
> > >    I'm able access the set up wizard through the web browser interface
> > > from another computer on the network. I'm able set the red and green
> > > interfaces and change the admin and root passwords for the console and
> > > web interface. After the set up wizard completes I'm unable to access
> > > the admin page again or ping the address I set for the green interface.
> > > 
> > >    What am I missing?
> > > 
> > > Mike Goracke
> > > 
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