From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Terry L. Ridder" Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 17:56:34 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] routing roaming computers with wireless ethernet cards Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org hello; yes it would be easy with an airport or a residential gateway from lucent/orinoco/agere but this is a linux box with orinoco cards in ad-hoc mode. there is/are no wireless card/cards in 'access point' mode. also while i could bring up dhcpd i would rather not. nat is not a problem. On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, alex avriette wrote: terrylr> question: how should routing be handled for terrylr> computers with wireless ethernet connections? alex> alex> well thats easy, mostly. have your wireless hub attached to a new nic, and alex> have that interface be assigning dhcp to all your roaming clients. then alex> route the traffic over that interface the exact same way you would route alex> any other interface. apple's airports provide dhcp and NAT all on their alex> own -- im not sure if any of the other ones do that. alex> alex> have fun, alex> alex alex> (wireless on a powerbook g4) alex> -- Terry L. Ridder digging deep, i feel my conscience burn i need to know who and what i am this hunger jolts me from complacency rocks me, makes me meet myself ----kendall payne---closer to myself--- _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/