[BL] BL as wireless gateway
sindi keesan
keesan at SDF.ORG
Mon Oct 3 11:52:43 EDT 2011
Steven, please could you find the time to help with this?
Christof had it working a few years ago with your help ('gateway between
two laptops' thread.
AT&T wants to double my internet rates after the first year and the
neighbor is happy to share his wireless signal with me instead. I can
pick it up at my front window and want to use a laptop with BL2 (or BL3)
to redistribute the signal to other computers via a hub.
I am testing on another setup, with two laptops plugged into a hub that is
connected to a wired router (192.168.2.1). I also plugged my Apple
wireless router into the hub (which lets me go online wirelessly - I
have probably turned off DHCP on it so it will work plugged into another
router via a series of two hubs). I want to go online wirelessly with one
of the computers and share the signal to the other via the wired hub.
A. BL2 with wired (eth1) and wireless (eth0) pcmcia cards. It connected
properly via eth0 to wireless network 10.0.1.1 router with IP number
10.0.1.2 for BL. I set IP address and default gw manually and DNS
nameserver 192.168.0.1 (DSL modem) in /etc/resolve.conf
For the wired network I chose different IP numbers from my other equipment
(wired router 192.168.2.1, DSL modem 192.168.0.1)
ifconfig eth1 192.168.3.1 (1.1 would also have worked here)
(gateway)
B. Puppy Linux with onboard wired eth0 (does not usually work with Puppy
though it always does with BL2) and USB wired eth1. With ethernet modules
loaded it will connect directly to internet using the wired router as
default gw so I know the hardware works. Then I set it manually to use
the BL2 laptop as gateway instead.
(I also tried BL2 the same way with onboard wired ethernet as eth0
instead of eth1).
ifconfig eth1 192.168.3.2
(client)
route add default gw 192.168.3.1 (use other laptop as gateway)
These two computers will now ping each other (via the hub).
I then set the first one to forward to the second one
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
(that file does now read 1)
The client computer will not access the internet - what did I do wrong?
It will only ping the gateway computer, not 8.8.8.8 or a URL.
I also tried to set up a firewall on the gateway (BL2)
ipchains -P forward DENY
ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.3.100/24 -j MASQ
'Protocol not available'
(I am using a small laptop kernel without ipchains support - would
this affect anything else above?).
Do I need ipchains support to do port forwarding? Should I try a larger
kernel or BL3 big kernel on the gateway computer?
I could use even a 133MHz laptop with 24MB RAM (too little RAM for Puppy
Linux) as the wireless gateway with BL, and a non-cardbus orinoco card
that does WEP. The slower laptops use less electricity. I should be able
to set even Mac and Windows computers to an IP address manually (though I
don't know how to set default gw in Windows yet).
Sindi
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