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Hi and thanks in advance for any help you can give me. I have Comcast and have been running HTTP and FTP servers through a Netgear router with no problem. I heard great things about m0n0wall and decided to give it a go. I've installed m0n0wall 1.23b3 on a generic pc's hard drive using a two-interface system to keep things simple for initial configuration purposes. I'm using Intel Pro/100 nics for both interfaces. The LAN-to-WAN connection works great. Had to power-cycle the cable modem to get a connection without spoofing one of my PC's MAC addresses, but that fixed it. I have the webGUI set to work via https on port 443. I have DHCP running on the LAN. Three machines, two of which are servers I need to give access to from the WAN, are on static IP assignments, outside of the DHCP address range. I set up a NAT (inbound) HTTP assignment to my web server's LAN IP address and let the webGUI create a corresponding firewall rule. Everything else is configured as installed. The problem is that monowall won't direct HTTP traffic to the NAT-ed LAN host I've specified. If I enter either my WAN IP or domain name into a browser, I get nothing. I can reset the webGUI to work on http (port 80), but then if I try to access my WAN IP or domain name, all I get is the webGUI login prompt - not a connection to my web server, as I've configured in the NAT and firewall rules. I've tried deleting all the NAT and firewall entries and starting over, but to no avail. Also tried blocking WAN access to m0n0wall's LAN IP address - that didn't work either. Reading the logs shows no traffic either passed or blocked on port 80. On the other hand, putting my cheapo Netgear router back in line restores everything just as if I hadn't just wasted several hours on another piece of underdeveloped open-source geekware. Maybe you get what you pay for in this case as in most others. I'd like to use m0n0wall and have time to work, drink, get laid, go shopping, etc. Can anyone help? -Dave |