[Asterisk-Users] Change IP info.

[Jeremy Hall]

I'll try to help remove some Smoothwall confusion here, I use it at home
for my firewall too.

Red IP: The IP of the NIC that is exposed to the untrusted network.  For
a home user, this would be the IP assigned by your cable provider.  No
system 

Green IP: The IP of the NIC attached to your internal network.  This is
the IP used as the Gateway on your internal systems.

Orange IP: This is the IP of the NIC attached to your DMZ network.
Green can see every port in the Orange DMZ network, but not the other
way around.

As for versions, there are several.  There is Smoothwall Express, which
is the GPL version.  There are also Corporate versions, which are based
on the GPL version, but provide additional enhancements that have not
yet been added to the express version.  However, many people are writing
their own modifications that add much of the Corporate advantage to the
GPL version.

As to the point of the original question, Smoothwall really doesn't play
a part here.  There is no DHCP, DNS, or other service running on the
Orange NIC, so the system must be configured manually for IP, DNS, and
Gateway information.  This would be change the same way you change that
on any Linux system that is not configured for DHCP.

Without knowing your specific distribution, I am not able to provide a
good answer for that.  In all honesty, I have never had to change the
static IP on a Linux system as I have everything set to DHCP and control
that information remotely.  I change the config on the DHCP server,
reboot the affected system or refresh the IP information, and it is
done.

Post your distribution, software/server daemons you have installed (some
need to be changed) and someone familiar with your specific system may
be able to better help you.

Jeremy



-----Original Message-----
From: C. Maj [mailto:cmaj-SPAM at freedomcorpse.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:30 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Change IP info.

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, William C. Ray waxed:

> Hello i was wondering how i can change the IP address information for
my Asterisk box, IP addy, Gateway, DNS.
> 
> I have a smoothwall router that i am using and i am tring to put the
Asterisk box on the orange interface so if anyone can help me please i
can use it.

I was wondering what a smoothwall was, so I checked it out.
smoothwall.org first, then when I saw the full color 86 page
administrator guide, I thought, wow, this can't be all of
it, so I found smoothwall.net, where they will sell you all
manner of 'smoothie' flavors AKA linux.  Neat.  I saw one of
these at a tradeshow the other day for $2500, so I took a
second look, at least that's my excuse to the list for
taking a look and helping out.  :P

I'm assuming this is the commercial version in question.
And from question 1 on the FAQ at smoothwall.net, it says
that the orange interface is the DMZ and green is the local
protected interface.  There are also red IP's, not sure what
they do.  But this appears to be a traffic light running
some form of embedded Linux.

Also in the FAQ, Mel Gibson gets props for his appearance as
Mad Max, in Mad Max 2: The 'Road Warrior', which is what you
use 'on the road' to get at your 'smoothie' -- one must hope
it will still work after the apocalypse.  Myself, I would
rather use industrial hemp for fuel than fight over dinosaur
bones, but that would make a pretty boring action movie.
Maybe fodder for a Mel Brooks comedy ?

Anyhow, back to the question at hand, if you can change the
IP address for a windows box via the smoothie windows GUI,
chances are you can do the same for the Asterisk box.
That's if you are running Asterisk on Linux, which I assume
you didn't get it to compile on FreeBSD, so it's probably
Linux.  You might need to know the MAC address of the
network card on the Asterisk box to change it's IP addy.
Gateway and DNS should be the same as what you set on the
windows boxes.

Apart from not knowing or being able to understand how
exactly you got Asterisk running (configs, etc.), if you can
do the IP stuff with smoothie for windows, you can probably
do it with smoothie for linux.

--Chris


-- 
Chris Maj, Rochester
cmaj_at_freedomcorpse_dot_com
Pronunciation Guide: Maj == May
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