Hi. Thanks for helping. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:49:35 -0300 > Vinícius Massuchetto <viniciusan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear all. >> >> I've been trying to serve a ppp0 internet >> connection through a wireless network. I made a >> small script to be ran when i want to do that: >> >> ifdown wlan0 >> iwconfig wlan0 essid "VinaNET" mode Ad-Hoc >> ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.254 >> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward >> /etc/init.d/dnsmasq stop >> /etc/init.d/dnsmasq start >> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE >> >> The script goes just fine and the client computer >> can see the wireless network but can't connect, it >> only keeps trying: >> >> DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 >> interval x > > I'm not sure that I understand exactly what you're trying to do here. > If you want the box in question to serve as a wireless AP / router > (i.e., the ppp connection is from the box, and clients connect > wirelessly to the box)
That's exactly it. I've got a 3G modem connected to the box, and I want other computers to get this connection wirelessly. I followed this tutorial to get this configuration: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sharing_ppp_connection_with_wlan_interface > then you should be configuring it with 'mode > master', or, more likely these days, using hostapd. If you have a > separate wireless AP, and you just want the box to be a dns server / > ppp host, then the mode should be 'managed', and the AP should be > configured to forward traffic to the box. I'm not sure about what mode to use in case I want the computer to be the router. I found this information randomically defined in different places while looking for it on the web. As I said, the client computer sees the wireless network I created, but can't connect to it. The syslog of the server computer keeps showing this: Sep 20 23:46:48 vinicius kernel: [ 3349.172165] wlan0: No active IBSS STAs - trying to scan for other IBSS networks with same SSID (merge) Sep 20 23:46:51 vinicius kernel: [ 3351.704879] wlan0: Selected IBSS BSSID 0e:45:9e:94:06:07 based on configured SSID > Please explain more clearly your network topology. Hope it is clear enough now. Thanks again. Vinicius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
