Hi-I am new to setting up a Firebox and don't want to pay the $300 or more to purchase a support agreement. Here's the situation: I have a Firebox Edge Hardware Firewall X20e. and want to run my wireless network from it. In other words, I will run from my cable modem to the Firebox, and from my Firebox to a DLink wireless router. The address range in the router is 192.168.0.100-192.168.0.199. Default gateway to the router is 192.168.0.1, as you might suspect. Since I am new to setting up a Firebox, I need to know where to start. I do NOT have drop-in mode available in the firmware that I can find...and I may not need it. Can anyone help me, hopefully with a step-by-step? The wireless also needs to be able to "pass-through" and have access to the Internet. I have tried optional network setup, trusted, etc. Can anyone help?
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Help Setting Up Firebox behind Wireless router 1
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I thought of this scenario-but I need the wireless clients to connect via DHCP:
turn off your DHCP on the DLink and set the internal IP address (Default Gateway) to match the Firebox one.
192.168.111.1 is the default for the Firebox; therefore, set it to 192.168.111.10.
set a password for the DLink Admin and Wireless.
Then connect the firebox to any of the DLink ports but do not use the WLAN port.
This way I am using the DLink as a Switch/Wireless Access Point.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
turn off your DHCP on the DLink and set the internal IP address (Default Gateway) to match the Firebox one.
192.168.111.1 is the default for the Firebox; therefore, set it to 192.168.111.10.
set a password for the DLink Admin and Wireless.
Then connect the firebox to any of the DLink ports but do not use the WLAN port.
This way I am using the DLink as a Switch/Wireless Access Point.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
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I did try the above method, and was able to get the wireless to connect to the network and negotiate an ip address via DHCP on the Firebox, but I was unable to access any Internet resources. I changed my IP address on the OPTIONAL network on the Firebox to 192.168.0.1 to match the DLINK router, and disable DHCP on the DLINK as well. I would still like to try to have the DHCP ENABLED on the DLINK (which is plugged into the OPTIONAL network port of the FIREBOX) and I could disable DHCP on the OPTIONAL network to see if that would work. However, I would still have DHCP enabled on the TRUSTED network of the FIREBOX....and I can't have two DHCP servers at one time-even if they are on separate nets, right? Again, thank you for all of your help. Is there anybody OUT THERE?
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I finally got it to work - OPTIONAL network is set for my wireless clients, and DHCP is enabled on the wireless router. Firewall works for both. NOW-can anyone help me as to how to forward port 48372 to and IP address on my network for bitTorrent traffic. Thanks!
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Wow-I got everything to work on my own. Here's what I did for forwarding the port correctly:
1:log into watchguard
2
pen Policy Manager
3: select the + sign or edit add policy
4: Under Add Policy select New
5: Name your New Policy Template my case VNC
6: whatever you want under description.
7: Under Protocols select Add
8: Type: my case again "Single Port"
9: Under Protocol: TCP
10: Server Port: my case 5500
11: select OK. then OK again. thats just to create a template of the port you want to forward. Then you have to do the following.
12:under Add Policies you are going to see a folder name Custom. You should see the template you created. My case VNC.
13:Select the policy and click on add way at the bottom of that box.
14:the Tab Policy : From remove any-Trusted and Add: ANY.
15: To: select Add should use Add NAT make sure you know what your external IP address is.
16 Internal IP: the computer you want to use to forward your port.
17: Port 5500 click on to all and save.
Remember - port 5500 is just used as an example. Special thanks to NO ONE on this board for help!!!!
1:log into watchguard
2
pen Policy Manager3: select the + sign or edit add policy
4: Under Add Policy select New
5: Name your New Policy Template my case VNC
6: whatever you want under description.
7: Under Protocols select Add
8: Type: my case again "Single Port"
9: Under Protocol: TCP
10: Server Port: my case 5500
11: select OK. then OK again. thats just to create a template of the port you want to forward. Then you have to do the following.
12:under Add Policies you are going to see a folder name Custom. You should see the template you created. My case VNC.
13:Select the policy and click on add way at the bottom of that box.
14:the Tab Policy : From remove any-Trusted and Add: ANY.
15: To: select Add should use Add NAT make sure you know what your external IP address is.
16 Internal IP: the computer you want to use to forward your port.
17: Port 5500 click on to all and save.
Remember - port 5500 is just used as an example. Special thanks to NO ONE on this board for help!!!!
LOL!!! now that is funny. sorry man, this forum is not heavily used; i just saw this last post so sorry i couldn't have been more help. my recommendation would be to create an account over at watchguard.com and join their forums. they have excellent resources over there.
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