jullima

Hello,

I want to give you my experience. I have an alix box with IPFire on it.

I wanted to have wifi from the internet box, so as not to have 5 firewalls / Access Points and routers.

The DHCP server is configured on my Firewall which has the default-gateway itself. Then I added a static route which points to the Swisscom internet-box (same subnet).

The only fault is that the return of traffic does not pass via the firewall but given that the NAT only allows the return of traffic generated by the LAN and authorized by my Firewall, that is enough for my confidence.

To connect from the outside (internet) to my local network, only VPN (OpenVPN) is possible and termination is done on my IPFire where I manage all the rules.

Ultimately, all my devices (on LAN or Wifi) receive an IP from my IPFire, and send the traffic to the Firewall (in my case the IPFire), then my Firewall inspects the requests and sends all the traffic back to the internet box . Then the return traffic is sent directly to the devices from the internet box.

Good day

Hello Olivier,

Did you find a solution? Because I have more or less the same problem.

I have a computer (my wife’s work one) that works great at her office or other WiFi. But at home, she can’t go online. The problem comes from DNS because if you do an nslookup (in DOS) of an address, the router sends you the IP address. But in IE or Firefox, you must put the IP address and not the name.

At home on the other hand, if I restart the router or do a reset, I still have no name resolution. So for now, each time at home, in XP we explicitly put the swisscom DNS servers.

I called the hotline, and no more results… I’m going to try to find another router to see if it does the same thing to me.

A+

Julian