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by nixer 1 view

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I need some pointers on implementing a firewall if someone could spare their expertise i would appreciate it. I am still a beginner in the field and could use some tips.

I am trying to implement a home firewall on a seperate pc. I am using a product called smoothwall GPL. My first problem is that I can only access the administration pages (through a browser) using the ip address. it's not wokring for me when i use the name of the box and port number, which it should do.

When i do use theip address to get to the pages I attempted to upload firmware for my Alctel DSL modem at first with no luck. Eventually I moved the NIC from one slot to the next and ureka! it worked.

Am I supposed to configure something on my Windows pc to makeit work correctly with firewall? Is it a prolem that I am not able to use the box name? I could really use some tips.

The firewall box is an old NEC READY 9733 i am not positive about the hardware configuration i.e. amount of MEM and thing like that.

Thanks for any help...

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by lordinfidel

First, you should not be able to use a browser and connect to it by name.

Why?

It probably does not support netbios (which you don't want it to anyways). And unless you have it's name somewhere in DNS, you will not be able to connect to it via name. (you can though put a mapping to it in your lmhosts file for resolution)

Just connect to it via IP, that is the standard way of doing it.

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