help with gateway firewall?

Wondered if someone might be able to shed some light on
wee struggle I'm having. I have installed a Linux
solution called clark connect home 3.2 (have you heard
of it?) www.clarkconnect.com The problem is I am very
numb to firewall setting, about all I know is that
firewalls open and close doors for access to Internet
or web server etc... I have successfully installed
and loggged in to the web admin dashboard facility. So I do
have a connection from my pc to the gateway on the
HTTPS ip address. But I can't seem to get my head
around the port forwarding or incoming, outgoing info
etc... Thus giving me no access to the Internet
If at all possible if someone could please provide me the information
to which ip or port
I need open and point it to. Maybe possibly walk me
through the process? I have search through all the
forums and there seem to be no specifics to my
scenario as I am not trying to access a web, email or
VPN Servers.

Many Thanks!

Very new struggling Linux user!
uphevel2

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> Wondered if someone might be able to shed some light on
> wee struggle I'm having. I have installed a Linux
> solution called clark connect home 3.2 (have you heard
> of it?) www.clarkconnect.com

I recently been in the same situation and I chose to use www.ipcop.org.
Should be about the same, even though I'm a bit confused regarding the big
different in size of the ISO. IPCop ~ 50 mb and Clark Connect ~ 450 mb.

What about your gateway to the internet? is there a firewall/NAT? are you
sure you have two NIC's? etc.

> The problem is I am very
> numb to firewall setting, about all I know is that
> firewalls open and close doors for access to Internet
> or web server etc... I have successfully installed
> and loggged in to the web admin dashboard facility. So I do
> have a connection from my pc to the gateway on the
> HTTPS ip address. But I can't seem to get my head
> around the port forwarding or incoming, outgoing info
> etc... Thus giving me no access to the Internet

I'll try to help you even though I'm not using the same SW, but in my case
the default settings in the SW already allowed http traffic. So unless Clark
Connect has everything closed as default I would check whether you have
configured your network interfaces correctly and placed the cables right.

> If at all possible if someone could please provide me the information
> to which ip or port

You might even be willing to try ipcop, maybe just until you know that your
cables and interfaces are working proberly. Since I haven't checked Clark
Connects manuals I'll give you a link to ipcop's interface configuration
which might help you (scroll a bit down to the diagram):

http://www.ipcop.org/1.4.0/en/instal...iguration.html

> I need open and point it to. Maybe possibly walk me
> through the process? I have search through all the
> forums and there seem to be no specifics to my
> scenario as I am not trying to access a web, email or
> VPN Servers.

Anyway, when I was setting up this dedicated FW I made sure that I had
switch right after my adsl2+ modem so that I had a clear gateway to the
internet in case something in the FW was blocking. It really sucks, that
when having problems, one cannot access the internet to check manuals etc.

Since there is a lot of other things that might block chances are that this
is not a port forwarding issue. And if I'm wrong, sorry for wasting your
time.

And if it's really just a portforwarding thing you might find help in their
manuals. If you don't care which FW software to use I can tell you that I
had my IPCop up and running within 30 minutes and it wasn't hard following
their instructions.

> Many Thanks!
>
> Very new struggling Linux user!
> uphevel2

nicolai

On 10 Aug, 14:04, "Nicolai" <exam...@example.invalid> wrote:
> "uphevel2" <uphev...@yahoo.com> skrev i en meddelelsenews:1186734325.670876.16710@j4g2000prf. googlegroups.com...
>
> > Wondered if someone might be able to shed some light on
> > wee struggle I'm having. I have installed a Linux
> > solution called clark connect home 3.2 (have you heard
> > of it?)www.clarkconnect.com
>
> I recently been in the same situation and I chose to usewww.ipcop.org.
> Should be about the same, even though I'm a bit confused regarding the big
> different in size of the ISO. IPCop ~ 50 mb and Clark Connect ~ 450 mb.
>
> What about your gateway to the internet? is there a firewall/NAT? are you
> sure you have two NIC's? etc.
>
> > The problem is I am very
> > numb to firewall setting, about all I know is that
> > firewalls open and close doors for access to Internet
> > or web server etc... I have successfully installed
> > and loggged in to the web admin dashboard facility. So I do
> > have a connection from my pc to the gateway on the
> > HTTPS ip address. But I can't seem to get my head
> > around the port forwarding or incoming, outgoing info
> > etc... Thus giving me no access to the Internet
>
> I'll try to help you even though I'm not using the same SW, but in my case
> the default settings in the SW already allowed http traffic. So unless Clark
> Connect has everything closed as default I would check whether you have
> configured your network interfaces correctly and placed the cables right.
>
> > If at all possible if someone could please provide me the information
> > to which ip or port
>
> You might even be willing to try ipcop, maybe just until you know that your
> cables and interfaces are working proberly. Since I haven't checked Clark
> Connects manuals I'll give you a link to ipcop's interface configuration
> which might help you (scroll a bit down to the diagram):
>
> http://www.ipcop.org/1.4.0/en/instal...iguration.html
>
> > I need open and point it to. Maybe possibly walk me
> > through the process? I have search through all the
> > forums and there seem to be no specifics to my
> > scenario as I am not trying to access a web, email or
> > VPN Servers.
>
> Anyway, when I was setting up this dedicated FW I made sure that I had
> switch right after my adsl2+ modem so that I had a clear gateway to the
> internet in case something in the FW was blocking. It really sucks, that
> when having problems, one cannot access the internet to check manuals etc.
>
> Since there is a lot of other things that might block chances are that this
> is not a port forwarding issue. And if I'm wrong, sorry for wasting your
> time.
>
> And if it's really just a portforwarding thing you might find help in their
> manuals. If you don't care which FW software to use I can tell you that I
> had my IPCop up and running within 30 minutes and it wasn't hard following
> their instructions.
>
> > Many Thanks!
>
> > Very new struggling Linux user!
> > uphevel2
>
> Hi nicolai,

Thanks for your advice i will look into it. I would like to hawever
stay with clarks connect as I would like to run a web server on the
same machine. Don't know how lucky I will get with that..

Uphevel2