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Re: Do we have anybody that is familiar with the SmoothWall router/firewall package?

 
John Collier
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Re: Do we have anybody that is familiar with the SmoothWall router/firewall package?

Denis,

So if I understand you correctly, I can use my Windoze PC to burn this ISO file to CD by simply inserting a blank disk into the burner and dragging the ISO image to the burner???s software interface? There is no special software needed to reformat the .ISO into a file system or anything else?

Why does that sound too easy to me?

On another note, I have tried the software install a couple of times already and it wants to configure the internal ???Green??? NIC first. The problem with that is that the one I want to use for the internal NIC is the PCI card that I mentioned earlier. When it probes my system for all available NICs it finds the old ISA card (apparently an older 3COM card) but it doesn???t see the PCI card.

I dug through the list of drivers that it has to see if I could perform a manual install and it seemed to like the drivers for one of the Realtech cards but when it asks me for the URL to download the .tgz file from it locks up and won???t let me enter it!?!

I am beginning to think that I will have to ???borrow??? one of the CDROMs from another machine in the house long enough to do the install whether I want to or not.

This is why I am suddenly interested in exactly how to get the .ISO file successfully burnt to CD. If I need other software to make this work, then please point me to a way to create this disk on my Windoze PC so I can then use it to load the software on the little donor machine.

This is really starting to become much more complicated than I expected???


BTW, thanks for the input so far. I will get to the points when it is installed and functional (or I give up, which ever comes first :-). I promise that much!
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Stephen Krebbet, 1793-1855
Steven E. Protter
Exalted Contributor

Re: Do we have anybody that is familiar with the SmoothWall router/firewall package?

Yes John,

Though the question was not aimed at me, I burn all my Linux CD's on Windoze boxes. If you have the burn software in, all you need to do is double click on the iso file.

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John Collier
Esteemed Contributor

Re: Do we have anybody that is familiar with the SmoothWall router/firewall package?

Sorry SEP,

I didn???t realize that the question looked like it was pointed to anybody.

So, if I understand your entry, all I should have to do is to double-click the .ISO file and it will know what to do from there. I will give it a shot and see what happens.

Thanks for the input guys!

I???ll let you know what happens???
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Stephen Krebbet, 1793-1855
John Collier
Esteemed Contributor

Re: Do we have anybody that is familiar with the SmoothWall router/firewall package?

OK,

It would appear as if I am officially dumber than your average doorknob when it comes to these ISO packages and burning them to CD.

I tried the method of double-clicking the .iso package and it asked me what I wanted to open it with. Obviously not what I wanted.

Next, I tried simply dragging it into the window of what is supposed to go on the CD and I got a nice little CD with the same .iso file that I downloaded from the web site. Since this is not in a suable format, I just made a $0.20 coaster (anybody want to by one?).

I???m obviously missing something here. Could someone point out where I am going wrong?
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Stephen Krebbet, 1793-1855
Denis Goffinet
Advisor

Re: Do we have anybody that is familiar with the SmoothWall router/firewall package?

As I don't know which program you use to burn you cd's this won't maybe help you.

But under Nero Burning ROM, you just have to clik on File -> Burn Image

then point to your iso image file.

If you you use another burning software, just hit "F1" to get help, and try to search on keywords like "burning image".

James Wilson_5
Frequent Advisor

Re: Do we have anybody that is familiar with the SmoothWall router/firewall package?

It sounds to me that you are using directcd or whatever it used to be called. This will not give you the desired result. You need nero burning rom if you use windows - there is a demo you can download at http://www.nero.com/en/#root
.

I use linux and there are a number of good packages. As I use KDE the frontends (K3B and CD Bake Oven) does the job.

John Collier
Esteemed Contributor

Re: Do we have anybody that is familiar with the SmoothWall router/firewall package?

Thanks again for the continued support and input.

For the information of those of you who have mentioned being able to use the Windoze packages to burn the .iso download to disk, I feel it may be helpful to inform you of the steps I have finally had to go through to make the disk image.

I tried first to use the NTI CD software that I have had on my computer for quite some time. While it is a great package and has worked beautifully for me in the past with everything that I have ever wanted to do with the CD burner, it failed the task of using the .iso package to create a CD.

I was told of another package from an acquaintance of mine called Fireburner. While it would recognize the .iso image, it never would complete the burning process for reasons I have yet to determine.

The last suggestion of using the Nero software (thanks for the nudge, James) was only successful after installing said software from the CD that came with my last CDR drive and then using the updates from the Nero site. The original software had no idea what to do with it.

That being said, I now have a full CD image that I will attempt to use on the little donor machine sometime tomorrow (if all goes as hoped).

The end appears to be near (as well as all of the long awaited, fully deserved points)!

I will post my future successes and/or failures here when they occur???
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Stephen Krebbet, 1793-1855
John Collier
Esteemed Contributor

Re: Do we have anybody that is familiar with the SmoothWall router/firewall package?

A quick update on the current situation:

As you know, I have been successful in creating the bootable CD-ROM from the ISO image for this software package. What you haven???t heard yet is that even with the image and a borrowed CD-ROM drive, I still haven???t been able to successfully load the software on this machine.

The closest I have gotten was booting with the CD and allowing it to pull all information from the CD for it???s software load. Everything appeared to have gone well and it looked like I was off to the races (as they say in these parts) until it came time to actually use the software.

I was unable to use either of the two different NIC cards that were installed in the machine to communicate with any other network device and they both refused to respond to a ping from any other machine on the network. On top of that, the software locked up and refused to allow a smooth shutdown, forcing a power off, which ultimately lead to unrecoverable disk errors!

I have since then tried to use both of the NICs in different combinations and have failed to achieve communication with either card on my network. I have verified the cables by swapping them out with other network machines in the house and all is good there.

Thinking this may have had something to do with the older 2.2 Kernel that the current 1.0 version uses, I also brought down the latest beta version that uses the newer 2.4.19 Kernel and had the exact same results.

Since the software recognizes the NICs, loads the drivers for them, and I get good connection to the switch from both NICs and STILL can???t manage to communicate through or with them, can anybody give me a clue as to what I may be overlooking before I throw this entire thing in the garbage and call it all a lost cause?
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." Stephen Krebbet, 1793-1855
Steven E. Protter
Exalted Contributor

Re: Do we have anybody that is familiar with the SmoothWall router/firewall package?

I don't know if its worth the money but a pair of Bay Networks PCI cards will work. I've got a Linux server at home with that setup.

Last I checked they listed for $19.99 at Best Buy.

Certified with Red Hat, and working in production, that's fore sure.

We might want to make a time and meet in the chat site and interact real time on your issues.

SEP
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spanky mcfoo
New Member

Re: Do we have anybody that is familiar with the SmoothWall router/firewall package?

I'd forget doing a full install, or even wasting a hard drive on this machine.

Check out floppyfw, which puts a linux-based fw on a floppy. Boot, do some basic configuration, and go:

http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/