Hi! I’m very new user of ipfire and I’m really bad in network management. I have to use local firewall with openvpn inside for my work (development).
What I have now:
consumer modem
old laptop with realtek network card and usb network card as second card (tp-link ue-200)
desktop pc
I had installed ipfire successfully with this tutorial: wiki.ipfire.org - Step 5: Network Setup
I entered the same addresses and values in all input fields. However, after it I can’t access web admin panel via url ipfire.localdomain:444/ (or 192.168.1.1:444/) I really don’t know why
I tried to ping my consumer modem ip (192.168.0.1) from laptop with ipfire - it works. But when I try to ping laptop with ipfire from my desktop pc it doesn’t work.
Please, can someone help me with that? I can execute any commands with results but please write these commands to me, because I’m pretty bad in network. Thank you so much!
Yes, I tried https://192.168.1.1:444/. I just missed https:// in my question because I can’t past many links as a new user. It doesn’t respond. I tried to ping 192.168.1.1 from my desktop pc and it’s not working too
Maybe I can provide some info from ipfire console?
If you type ifconfig in the console, it will list all interfaces. You can mask the red as probably it is public. We care about the green interface. You could post the contents of /var/ipfire/ethernet/settings
@anon42188109 ok, it’s done. Here is content from file /var/ipfire/ethernet/settings. I’m sorry for possible typos I had to type it from my laptop screen since I can’t access by ssh
You setup is: consumer modem ---- red (laptop with ipfire) – green 192.168.1.1
I don’t know what this consumer modem is (in the US we use cable modem) and I don’t know if there is a setup on that modem to provide an ip (some modems need to be in bridge mode). I don’t want to know the red ip, it is public so mask it if you have to. From example, my public ip is 64.*
If you can run setup on the console again and verify that all steps follow what the wiki shows. Maybe someone else has ideas …
DEFAULT_GATEWAY=0.0.0.0 applies to red0 and would be correct for red0 getting its address via DHCP. OP should change back to DEFAULT_GATEWAY=0.0.0.0
It’s possible that some firewall or network setting in the PC has the latter set to a different network address. OP could try booting a Live Linux on the PC - that should then get an address in the 192.168.1.0 network.
It’s really strange but I think it was kind of software problem on my PC which was connected to green interface from IPfire. I’ve just reinstalled IPfire right now and I’ve got a request access for new network connection on my PC. In previous installation I didn’t notice such request notification. I’ve submitted it and now it works!
I’ve connected to a web ui successfully after that. So, thank you all for answers on my dummy question!