[Cialug] Firewall question

[David Champion]

That would depend one whether he's doing:

internet <--> modem <--> firewall <--> ap <--> all your clients

or

internet <--> modem <--> firewall <--> wireless router <--> all your clients

Tom, do you know if your AP is in Access Point mode, or Router mode?

-dc

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Sean Flattery <sean.r.flattery at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Which system is your DHCP server, and what default route is it telling to
> DHCP clients?  Make sure you don't have both your firewall and wireless
> router handing out DHCP.
>
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>
> *Tom Sellers*
>     tsellers2009 at gmail.com
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>     *Tue Mar  7 13:36:49 CST 2017*
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> I will try to get more detailed later (busy today) but the traceroute
> command comes back with two lines.  both reference the base IP of the
> router which is 192.168.9.1.  I agree that the problem is with not being
> able to get to the internal firewall side which is 192.168.9.254 fixed IP.
> If I am logged into the firewall machine I can ping by IP or name.
>
> ie: ping 8.8.8.8 with a valid response  (also)
>      ping www.google.com resolves and .properly as well.
>
> I can ssh to the firewall at 192.168.9.254 without any issue and perform
> the above commands without issue.
>
> >*From the local machine terminal window both commands fail.
> *
> Right now the wireless access point does not have an internet connection.
> Just trying to route through the firewall to the existing network which
> works fine.  When I tried to connect this wireless device to my cable modem
> directly I crashed the whole network.  Firewall did not work.
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