Damn, this delay in receiving posts IS a pain. I try to post a helpful 
response and come back later to find that Bryce has already posted an update 
36 min. prior to mine.

This sounds like the kernel routing tables are confused on your workstation.

I'm sure you know this but make sure the default gateway on the workstation is 
pointing to the internal IP of the firewall.

As far as i know you may already have this fixed by now ;-)

Good luck !

KevinO wrote:
> Bryce C wrote:
> 
>>  BTW, I'm running smoothwall with and without snort, httpd, and squid.
> 
> 
> You need httpd for the web interface, squid for the web proxy service 
> and snort shouldn't matter. (I run a smoothwall box if you wish to 
> compare nores, settings, etc.)
> 
> You want squid running. I use transparent option since I have multiple 
> boxes on my LAN w/ browsers and I don't want to configure them all.
> 
> This should do it... The latest update is fixes17
> 



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