[ILUG] [OT] Smoothwall and Eircom DSL.

[Joe Fitzsimons]

> I have a small company here in Longford connected to Eircom DSL via a
> netopia device.
>
> I have configured a smoothwall firewall in between there LAN and the
> modem.
>
> If I nmap the external IP I dont see anything in the logs of the
> smoothwall box. Will I only see activity if there is a pin hole open
> between the netopia device and firewall?

The netopia is a router and has nat setup by default. Unless you get
through nat using loose source routing or something, the nmap scan will
never make it to the firewall. If you're using pinholes then only hits to
those ports will show up in the logs.

Joe