[PLUG] Routing Query

Richard Langis richard.langis at sun.com
Mon Sep 16 19:13:32 UTC 2002


That's how it is currently setup, in fact - and it doesn't work, 
unfortunately.

Russell Senior wrote:
> What happens when you make the laptop's default gateway be:
> 
>   192.168.2.252 (or whatever the "fileserver" interface to the AP is).

I'd plug it into the hub/switch, but I was looking to make this AP 
ptp-able (www.personaltelco.net) which means some kind of firewalling at 
the interface level.

Mike De La Mater wrote:
 > Sounds like a hub is in order, I won't try the ascii method.
 > Hook the firewall's one port to the hub, then plug as many
 > devices into the hub as you like. I think that will make
 > things simpler.

Stafford A. Rau wrote:
 > Does your laptop, when connected via wireless, have a default route
 > pointing at 192.168.2.1 (or whatever the fileserver's eth1 address
 > is)?
 >
 > Does your fileserver have ip routing turned on?
 > (cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward should equal 1 if the fileserver is
 > running linux)

Routing is on (this box *used* to pull double-duty as firewall/server). 
  The dhcpd.conf declarations for the two subnets are identical except 
for the bits that call out the network itself, and the gateway.  The 
gateway for the wireless net is the interface address for the AP, and 
the gateway for the wired net is the network side of the firewall.

I have a suspicion that there's a small routing thing at the fileserver 
going on...but I'm not sure what.





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