*Bridged*:
The easiest, unfirewalled
Get a switch and a wireless bridge (Like senao /engenius sl2511)
Connect the bridge to the wireless router and to the switch and you're done.
Cost: 100 euro
Or:
Get an openbsd box with ethernet and wireless card, bridge both interfaces
and connect the wireless interface to the wireless router. Connect the wired
interface to the switch where you also connect the rest of your equipment.
Here you could set up a bridged firewall with pf.
*
Routed
*
Get an openbsd box with ethernet and wireless card, instead of bridging,
configure
NAT between the two interfaces, connect the wireless card to the
wireless router
in client mode. Connect the wired interface to the switch togheter with
your equipment.
Things to read:
pf manual
man ifconfig
man brconfig
man hostname.if
and some more...
If you know how to do it it's five minutes work. If you don't, it's some
homework.
Zen Lunatic wrote:
I recently got cable. The modem is installed on the third floor of the
house. We have a wireless router which allows me to connect my laptop,
and we have an xp machine and a ps2 hooked wired to two of the four
wired ports on the router.
I wanted to build my own router/firewall but the modem is in someone
elses room and they don't want to have a machine sitting in there.
What I want to do is somehow build a box that is a router/firewall but
connects to the internet using the wireless signal, so I can set up my
own router in my room in the basement and connect a bunch of wired
computers so I don't have to buy wireless cards for everything plus so
I can have my own dedicated firewall. This is basically a standard or
bsd dedicated router/firewall box, but which uses the wireless to get
to the internet instead of a second network card. Can this be done?
I looked into these wireless bridge things but I was wondering if I
could do something like I've described with a bsd or gnu/linux box
with wireless card and a network card which is plugged into a switch
like a normal bsd or gnu/linux router.
I searched and didn't find anything on this topic.
I know this isn't the most ideal setup for a home network, but its all
I got for now. At least my part of the network will be firewalled off
from the windows side. Thanks.
