Setting up smoothwall on VMWARE? huh!

[reggiep]

Our local filtering box (Freedom 2 Teach) is absolute garbage so I am trying to find an alternative.

I have used censornet in the past but it seems to be a paid for service now so I thought I would have a play with smoothwall.

My fisrt problem is I am trying to install a VMware image of it on to my local machine but when it install through VMware it has an iprange of 192.168.*.* whereas my network is on a 10.60.*.* range.

Now I'm not sure if this matters as VMware seems to create a bridge and I can ping the vmware cards that are installed by vmware but I can't ping the ipaddress of the red and green cards in smoothwall.

 

I won't go on any further as I'm babbleing but am I doing everything correctly?

 

Thanks

[diggory]

You can get smoothwall in three different versions.

 

One does just web filtering (one nic) - Network Guardian

 

The other does network filtering and also acts as a firewall - School Guardian

School Guardian has two or more network cards, can do routing and NAT for you, etc.

 

If you want just filtering and you already have a good firewall, you might want to try Network Guardian.

You should configure it's one IP address to be within your existing IP range

 

There is also Mobile Guardian for laptops - haven't tried that...

[tom_newton]

Diggory is right.

The first step is "how many NICs do you want" - if its VM, the answer is almost certainly one, as you don't really want to do firewall over VM.

 

next step - is this just a local test, or do I want some other PCs to go through it. If the latter, use VMWares NAT'd interface, and set the smoothie's IP accordingly (VMNat will be on a 10.0.xx.0 usually IIRC - the gateway will be .2, set smoothe ito .!), if you want others to see the smoothie, set up VM's bridged networking and use an IP/netmask from your existing network.

 

HTH,

 

Tom