[PLUG] fun with routing and wireless

[Carla Schroder]

On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:38, Wil Cooley wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 16:39 -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
> 
> > Pyramid does not have bridge-utils, so as near as I can tell there is no 
way 
> > to bridge the wireless NIC to the wired LAN NIC without rebuilding the 
whole 
> > dern operaring system (insert much cussing.)  So what other options do I 
> > have? I spose a couple iptables rules will do the job- what about routing? 
> 
> Are the internal wired, wireless and Internet all interfaces on the same
> unit?  Are the internal wired and wireless separate IP networks?  If so,
> assuming you're using NAT between the wired LAN and Internet, then it
> should just be a matter of one iptables rule to do the outbound NAT.
> Since the router interfaces are the default gateways for both the
> wireless and wired LAN, the router should be able to forward packets
> transparently between the two; you will, of course, want to lock down
> what the wireless LAN can read on the wired or, depending the default
> rulesets, need to open the rules a bit.  Should be pretty
> straightforward.
> 

Thanks, it is easy with iptables, I was just not wanting to. The latest build 
put bridge-utils back in, so I'm going to build me a bridge.

Carla
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