Guest network, wireless host

Guest network, wireless host

[Thomas Koch]

I found this howto about guests running on a host with wireless internet 
connection: (proxy arp)

http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/bridge-wireless-cards/

The steps described there work so far, but it would be perfect, if the guest 
could somehow obtain an IP via DHCP and if the whole stuff could be setup as 
Debian package.

Anyone has done this already?

Best regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro

Re: Guest network, wireless host

[Anthony Liguori]

Thomas Koch wrote:
> I found this howto about guests running on a host with wireless internet 
> connection: (proxy arp)
>
> http://blog.bodhizazen.net/linux/bridge-wireless-cards/
>
> The steps described there work so far, but it would be perfect, if the guest 
> could somehow obtain an IP via DHCP and if the whole stuff could be setup as 
> Debian package.
>   

This is just doing routing.  There's a much easier way to do this with 
libvirt.  See:

http://www.libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html#examplesRoute

DHCP will never work because you've technically created a separate 
subnet.  You could run a local copy of dnsmasq to manage the range of IP 
addresses you're reserved for your private subnet though.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori