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Support => General Support => Topic started by: sadams1980 on Wednesday 01 July 2015, 03:48:04 am



Title: Endian Bridge Mode - Red interface
Post by: sadams1980 on Wednesday 01 July 2015, 03:48:04 am
Hi all,

I am playing with Endian and I want to set it up in bridged mode example LAN -> Endian -> Router but whenever I try to set it up the Outgoing Interface (Red - WAN) is greyed out and i can't select it. I enter the default gateway but can't go any further, as it says i need to select a outgoing Red interface but it wont let me.

Basically I want Endian to act as an internal firewall, antivirus, proxy, filter and cache for all incoming and outgoing data. Am I doing this right? Am i missing something?

I have tried Untangle (which is still running but doesnt do filtering or caching unless you pay), ClearOs (didnt get on with), Smoothwall Express (didnt like). Endian seems brilliant if i can just get this sorted.

Cheers


Title: Re: Endian Bridge Mode - Red interface
Post by: speccompsol on Friday 03 July 2015, 12:12:55 pm
Need to select 'gateway' mode specifying the router ip address as the gateway/uplink ip address . . . . .
i.e.
Wrkstn (192.168.1.10) -> EFW (192.168.1.2) -> Router (192.168.1.1)

The workstation needs to have the Endian/EFW ip address as its gateway address which in turn the EFW/Endian will then pass to the router.

Any workstation that has the router ip address as gateway would bypass the EFW

or . .

Set the EFW/Endian with 2 NICs, one 'Green', one 'Red'

Wrkstn (192.168.1.10) -> EFW Green (192.168.1.1) / EFW Red (192.168.3.2) -> Router (192.168.3.1) -> internet/isp


Title: Re: Endian Bridge Mode - Red interface
Post by: sadams1980 on Friday 03 July 2015, 07:53:58 pm
or . .

Set the EFW/Endian with 2 NICs, one 'Green', one 'Red'

Wrkstn (192.168.1.10) -> EFW Green (192.168.1.1) / EFW Red (192.168.3.2) -> Router (192.168.3.1) -> internet/isp

Would this be in router Ethernet mode?  As it will only let me use Ethernet DHCP, if I choose Ethernet Static it errors saying the Green and Red networks are not distinct.

Cheers


Title: Re: Endian Bridge Mode - Red interface
Post by: obiwan on Friday 17 July 2015, 04:35:41 pm
Just in case anyone is looking for the solution for bridged mode and greyed out Red interface.
Make sure you TICK BOTH NICs in step 3/8 of the Network Setup Wizard.

So you now have 2 ticks in both the GREEN NICs

Now in step 4/8 the untrusted interface is magically un-greyed and you can proceed.

Bridge / Stealth mode is great, you can place Endian in-line to the current router, just make sure any port-forwards on the upstream router point to Endian.