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Up and running with IPFire

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Up and running with IPFire

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- [Instructor] Once the firewall restarts, we can connect to the admin portal from our LAN workstation. On web address https://172.16.1.1, port 444. And we'll use admin, ipfire, and Sign in. Let's try to access our file server. http://172.16.1.2. And we can access the file server. And let's try and access 10.0.1.2, and we can access our website. And we might just do a search for wing suits. And we can access the internet. We've got full access by default from our LAN. We now need to enable access to the web server from the internet. For that, we'll select Firewall, Firewall Rules, and add a new rule. We're presented with a configuration page consisting of five panels. In the Source panel, we'll set it to Standard networks, Any. In the NAT panel, we'll use Network Address Translation, and we'll use Destination Nat, which is the IPFire way of doing port forwarding. And on the firewall interface, we'll select RED, which is our WAN. In the Destination panel, we'll enter the destination…

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