Topic: Gateway address under 4.1

[Mike Coan]

I recently upgraded from 4.0 to 4.1.  We have a fractional T-1 connection that comes through a Cisco router and PIX firewall.  We want our small network to access the Internet through the e-smith server, to take advantage of caching and to implement filtering.

Under 4.0 we specified the address of the e-smith server as both the gateway adn the DNS.  Under 4.1, we cannot access the internet if we specify the e-smith server as the gateway.  We have to specify the gatreway address of the Cisco switch to gett to the internet.  The e-smith server still resolves names as we continue to specify the e-smith machine's address for DNS.

To summarize.  e-smith server IP address 192.168.1.4
                       Switch gateway IP address 192.168.1.254

Under 4.0 we would specify 192.168.1.4 as both the gateway and DNS, and all would work.  Under 4.1 we need to specify 192.168.1.254 as the gateway in order for client machines to get to the internet.

The 4.1 manual clearly says that in Server mode with access through a corporate firewall you should specify the IP address for the Internet gateway, which is the 192.168.1.254, which works, but that seems to bypass the e-smith server and not allow filtering.

Obviously I am somewhat confused and would appreciate any help.

Mike

[Randy Brown]

It wont work in server only mode. If you want to have your e-smith box as a gate way then you need a second lan card and set it up as server and gateway.

hope this helps
Randy

[Mike Coan]

Randy Brown wrote:
>
> It wont work in server only mode. If you want to have your
> e-smith box as a gate way then you need a second lan card and
> set it up as server and gateway.
>
> hope this helps
> Randy

Randy,

It did work this way in 4.0, which is why I am confused.  In other words, I had a working 4.0 e-smith server running in dedicated server mode, with address of 192.168.1.4.  It pointed to the gateway of 192.168.1.254.  In my Windows clients I had the Gateway IP address listed as 192.168.1.4 and all worked.  I used the 4.1 iso image to upgrade to 4.1, leaving everything else the same.  The upgrade went fine, and all user email accounts are still there.  The problem is that no one can access the internet unless I change the Gateway addresss on the client machines from 192.168.1.4 to 192.168.1.254.

Was this specifically changed by 4.1?

Thanks