I did something like that once and it was working 100%.
I created a box w/ 4 nics (one Wireless) and didn't really subnet
anything, it was my single router point for all three networks and
my gateway.
That was... interesting to set up. But I wanted to try this
DL-713 to try and limit the number of computers I had running in
one room (loud!).
But now the WAP won't talk to anyone. I'm not sure where the
problem is. I can't get any windows boxes to install the PCMCIA
cards correctly and I (recently) blew out my pcmcia configs on my
notebook. Dumb. When it rains, it pours.
Hank Barta wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 06:02:25PM -0500, tom wrote:
> > Anyone have any luck getting a Wireless Access Point / Router /
> > firewall appliance working with the WAP part?
> >
> > I've got everything running, but I'm really lost when it comes to
> > the configuration of a WAP.
> > Very little documentation anywhere.
>
> I'm not using an access point, but rather a PCMCIA adapter on a
> non-portable system. I have configured a separate subnet for the
> Wireless LAN and have configured all hosts on my wired subnet to
> route through the non-portable system to get to the wireless subnet.
> ('man route' for more.)
>
> Everything works pretty well except for the connection from the
> wireless subnet to the Internet through a Linux firewall that is doing
> IP filtering (ipchains on 2.2.18 kernel) and NAT. It seems not to be
> able to route to the Wireless LAN, probably due to misconfiguration
> between NAT and routing or possibly there is a bug or limitation. Some
> day I'll try 2.4.x and iptables to see if I can do better.
>
> In the mean time, I run 'junkbuster' on the non-portable system and
> specify that as the proxy for hosts on the wireless subnet. That
> gets me web browsing. That combined with just telnetting to the
> non-portable system and running whatever I want there provides a high
> enough level of functionality to make this shortcoming a non-issue.
>
> In any case, the PCI/PCMCIA adapter and extra wireless card cost
> less than any base station (this for 802.11b and using Orinoco
> silver cards.)
>
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