| Carl Johnson on 16 Jun 2011 11:53:59 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Running Smoothwall on VirtualBox |
Firewalls are something that should always be run on dedicated hardware. Just my opinion...... Sent from my Motorola DynaTAC 8000x Adam Zion <azion1995@gmail.com> wrote: >In an attempt to reduce the heat in NET Frankford Ave. server room, >which doubles as my office, I'm consolidating servers. I consolidated >one small Debian server into a much more powerful Windows PC by >installing Apache on the Windows box + recreating the Samba shares >from the Debian box. > >The second job is much touchier: installing Smoothwall on the Windows >box via VirtualBox. So far, even though I got Smoothwall to detect the >cards, when I fire up the virtual machine the network is always >unavailable. I suspect that the issue is with how I'm configuring the >NICs to work in VB- NAT, bridged, internal, or host-only. But damned >if I can find the right combination. > >This machine contains two NICs- one going to the Comcast cable modem, >and one to the Clubhouse PCs. I would think that these should either >both be configured as NAT or bridged, but neither of those worked. > >Has anyone here tried something vaguely like this in the past? I know- >I should either leave the Smoothwall box as-is or install it on a >linux server. But this box needs to run Windows for various reasons, >and I really don't feel like completely nuking it in the hope that >this will replicate something that we already have. > >Thx, >-Z > >-- >Adam+Zion, MCSE+I, Registered Linux User #471910 >___________________________________________________________________________ >Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >http://www.phillylinux.org >Announcements - >http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >General Discussion -- >http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug