Last week i installed a new smoothwall firewall.

The old one we had at the summerhouse blow up last year – last weeks of the authum we where there and I did not have time then to fix it so I just took it home. After checking it now I did found out that the motherboard is probably fried and not the harddrive as I suspected, but I will have to do more investigation into this. I had more small boxes that can be used for this (the one we had in the house in uppsala could be reused) so i installed a new version of smoothwall on it. The old one was a Smoothwall Express 2 and there is a new version 3 out that I wanted to test.

So I installed the new version on the box and as I whanted to test it as much as I could I plugged the red network into my home network and that was good and well and it got a network adress over DHCP just as it would down at the summerhouse when I plug it into the telia ADSL connection.

Except for the fact that after the initial config you are suposed to login to the webinterface from the INSIDE (or the green network) to finnish the config. And my machines are ofcuase on my green home network, and that is now the red on the new smoothwall. So what to do. Well im shure there is a way of changing the config manually so I started too look around and checked if I could change it from the command line.

And there is a way but I could not find any one mention this so thats why I write this down. Hopefully someone else can use this aswell.

So you go into the machine (on the console) and login with root and the password you set.

At the prompt you do:

And then add the line:

Save the file, back to the command line and reboot the system (reboot command).

This will open up the access to the 441 port and the web interface from the red network and after this you can login on the red network to the webinterface also and continue the config process.