Hey, (Test Network Setup)
I am newer to networking, i understand some of the basic concepts and i have the ability to research and learn anything, i just need help being pointed in the right direction. Please take it easy...
This is my first time setting up an Astaro firewall and i have a couple of questions to help clear up my confusion. Initially i managed to install the linux based firewall onto the system containing two identical NIC's. I configured my port to be https://192.168.1.100:4444. After logging in and setting my basic admin password and information i configured the internal uplink and the external WAN to be..
Internet - Router - Firewall - Test Connection PC
Internal - 192.168.1.100/255.255.255.0/No Gateway DHCP Off
External - 192.168.1.101/255.255.255.0/192.168.1.1 (Router IP)/68.94.156.1 (DNS)
After setting these configurations and completing the wizard i was shown that the Internal State/Link was Up/Up and the External WAN was UP/UP and i figured it should work off the basic wizard settings. Once i turned on the Uplink Monitoring it showed that the External Link has an Error.
The system on the External WAN side of the firewall is using a static IP and the routers gateway. I cannot ping the either NIC on the firewall from this system, but the system i use that is on the Internal side of the firewall for configuring the Webadmin can ping both addresses, one for each NIC.
How can i correctly configure my settings to passthrough and allow internet access. I had done this once before when i was trying this on Astaro V7 and the internet worked but my filters did not and its been problems from then on out. Now i am working with V8 and hoping to acheive better results.