Folks -
I have been using SME for our network at work , a small public library, for a number of years now, for DNS and email and a little web serving, and it has performed flawlessly.
The server sits in the DMZ of our firewall, an ancient checkpoint firewall that I would like to toss out. Not that it does not work, but because I know nothing about it (it was always my old boss's baby - now she's gone) and yesterday, I was slapped upside the face with it because we needed to add a route for our new phone system, and found out we didn't know how, and the folks that support this box for us were already on vacation for the weekend.
We have a router that is on our internal network that hooks up to a T1 to our branch library. Before, I had the routers in bridge mode, and I could get to the branch side of things with no trouble. Then yesterday, the phone guys came in and said that their VOIP stuff could not work in a bridged situation, and re-wrote my router configs to route instead of bridge, and then the branch computers have no internet without a route back from the firewall. Fortunately, we have a separate T1 for the public at the branch, so we were able to put the staff PC's on the that network and still function, but it is not a long-term solution.
My question to the esteemed members of this forum is: If I replace the checkpoint with the SME box, will I be able to manipulate routing? Would it be as simple as adding a route statement somewhere, or what?
Thanks so much!
Mark in Michigan