Installation

Hi,
I want to install m0n0wall on a IP120 to replace the original system but I don't know how to do and what wersion of m0n0wall I have to intall.
Could someone have already make it?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards.

Here is a good starting point for you:

http://chrisbuechler.com/m0n0wall/nokia/ip110.html


The MAC address spoofing can be done with the <spoofmac> presented in previous link (bottom of that page) or better yet, with these instructions:

http://forum.m0n0.ch/index.php/topic,1471.0.html

I used that method, it flashes the MAC addresses permanently so you do not need to fiddle around with the box anymore. I took a note of the original MAC address from IP-box's mainboard and simply used that as a starting point; other two interfaces got theirs by incrementing the MAC by 1.
It's somewhat "complicated" to do the <spoofmac> thingy, especially since you have to do it everytime you happen to restore the factory defaults. Then again, since MAC is not valid, you cannot access the box via net; you gotta once again take the box apart and add the spoofmac tags in config.

Note also that I haven't managed to get the IP120 to reboot properly; it shutsdown, but it will never reboot with m0n0wall version 1.3. Depending how and where you use the box, you have to remove the power plug and plug it back in to restart it. Makes remote booting awkward. Version 1.2 works very well. I hope this problem will be fixed sometime.

Some discussion about the reboot problem here:

http://forum.m0n0.ch/index.php/topic,2373.0.html

In general, take apart the box, remove the hard drive and write the m0n0 image to it in a PC. I prefer to use a CompactFlash IDE adapter. Then you can simply remove the CF card instead too much of screwdriver work.

You can download the "standard PC" image which you can write to the hard drive with some raw sector writing software. Available from m0n0wall page is a "physdiskwrite" application. Make sure you overwrite the correct HDD/memcard!

Newer 1.3 beta releases of CDROM version have "install to hard disk" option in main menu. I think that version 1.2 releases do not have it. Not sure, never checked.

hi Kim,

Many thanks for your help. I had some problems with the "starting point" you gave me.
So what I succesfully test:
- I download the last version of  m0n0wall (generic-pc-1.235.img)
- I put it on a old 2.5" hardrive using physdiskwrite 0.5.1
- After have restarted the IP120, m0nwall is working fine

Now, I see that the system works, I'll make the same operation after have bought a compact flash card with an IDE adapter to have a reliable system.

Regards.

Did you do the spoofing of the MAC addresses in config or did you write permanent entries to NIC eeproms?

Or did your box work right away, without modification of MACs?

Hi Kim,

I simply upload the generic-pc-1.235.img file on the harddrive and nothing more.
I set up the IP of the interfaces using the console port and the rest of the configuration via http.

   Marc