default gateway / smoothwall

[gorilly]

on my local network i have my linksys router at 192.168.0.1

DHCP is running off my server at 192.168.0.2

and smoothie is at 192.168.0.3



why is it that if i put my smoothie inbetween my linksys and set my network card with these options all works fine
ip address: 192.168.0.24
subnet: 255.255.255.0
gateway : 192.168.0.3

yet if i set my network card to automaticly get its details it gets an ip address but wont connect to the net and the default gateway is left blank and i cant connect to the internet...


what i am trying to get at here is i want to use the smoothwall firewall insted of using my linksys router firewall. i was going to put the smoothwall inbetween my linksys and my switch, then use the smoothwall as the gateway, so all the linksys is doing is acting as a modem.

is it because the ip address of my smoothie 192.168.0.3 is inside my DHCP range, (192.168.0.3 > 192.168.0.50)?

all i want is not to have to go round to 30 workstations and staticly set them all with a gateway of 192.168.0.3, but i want it to automatically pick them up like they already do with the linksys at 192.168.0.1

[Dpgamer]

Maybe I'm not understanding this correctly but couldn't you just assign the smoothwall to 192.168.0.1, I'm guessing you use the router as a switch so put it off the green interface and disable dhcp. Then use the smoothwall's dhcp to assign addresses.

[gorilly]

Maybe I'm not understanding this correctly but couldn't you just assign the smoothwall to 192.168.0.1, I'm guessing you use the router as a switch so put it off the green interface and disable dhcp. Then use the smoothwall's dhcp to assign addresses.


no my server is my DHCP server and i would like to keep it as my DHCP server, my linksys and my smoothwall are set with DHCP DISABLED.

its a pain to change the ip address of the smoothwall i have to reinstall it all... ohhwell.

i might set the smoothwall at 192.168.0.1 and the linksys at something like 192.168.0.99 and do it that way.

i still cant understand why windows will pick up 192.168.0.1 as a gateway but not 192.168.0.3

[sandrock]

its a pain to change the ip address of the smoothwall i have to reinstall it all... ohhwell.
No you do not. Login at the console or with putty as your "setup" user. It will bring you to the semi-graphical display you went through when installing. You can change the green ip of your smoothie there, no reinstallation required. :santa:

[Archer36]

Honestly I would do as mentioned and puTTY into your server and log in as "setup" change your smoothwall's GREEN IP to 192.168.0.1 and tell your smoothwall to take over DHCP. If you will do that it will take some load off your server as the smoothwall is intened to do DHCP and there is not reason not to.


i still cant understand why windows will pick up 192.168.0.1 as a gateway but not 192.168.0.3If I understand you correctly your current server is giving out DHCP, so your windows computer pics up DHCP from your server then windows thinks that the DHCP server is also the gateway. Probably because this is how most small home networks operate.