I have a setup question in getting a home network going. I have a desktop system which connects to the net by dialup (at the moment). I have a PCI-to-PCMCIA adaptor for a pcmcia wlan card and a USB wlan - whichever I can get working first stays.
I also have a laptop with a wlan card. What I want to do is have the desktop act as an access point for my laptop and then have the laptop/desktop share the modem connection to the net. My question regards gateway and gateway device. I think I understand this but can someone help me? On the desktop, the connection is, as stated, via /dev/modem. Do I leave the gateway address alone and set gateway device to /dev/modem? Do I leave both alone? On the laptop I assume I just set gateway to the IP of the wlan card on the desktop (the access point) which is 10.0.0.1. Do I leave gateway device unset/alone or do I set it to wlan0 (or eth0 as the case may be)? Finally, a question on another matter. Is there anyone in the list with a DSL account (dynamic, not static IP) that also makes use of dynamic dns services (dydns)? If so, how do you set THAT up? I assume you have a DSL router/modem that probably runs a NAT network for your system(s). If this is the case, how do you get dydns updated with your IP address? If your DSL router assigns your system address 10.0.0.5, then obviously updating dydns with that IP will fail and I doubt there is a client app that can be loaded on a DSL router that will keep dydns updated...or is there? praedor
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