Wow, what an unbelievable ingrate.  Just want to say that it's shameful
to have such a piece of invective on the lists the same day Manuel is
trying to finalize the 1.2 branch.  Manuel, this has been such a solid
piece of software for me and my clients.  It has held up without failure
under environments where Cisco routers would lock after only a few
weeks.  I must say that I can't imagine what we'd run our networks on if
not for M0n0wall.  Thank you, thank you, thank you for your incredible
contribution to open source and IT as a whole, Manuel.  Feel the love.

jason 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Penn [mailto:djpenn3 at gmail dot com] 
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 2:33 PM
To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: can't get m0n0wall to open port 80 other than to webGUI

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