Alternative instructions for doing it from a Mac:
Turn on the airport (wireless card) and open the control panel (in OS X you
can have its status on teh menu bar or dock if you like, and do everything
from there).
In OS 9 select "software base station" and then start the base station (you
can change the network name/channel by editing the boxes).
In OS X select "Create network".
and away you go....
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Ian B. Jacobs wrote:
Hugo Haas wrote:
>
> I have installed a wireless network at home. I have a laptop which is
> connected to my cable modem and which does masquerading.
[snip]
> If people want to do the same, I described the system at:
>
>
http://larve.net/people/hugo/2000/10/wireless-lan
Hi Hugo,
Gerald and I were at the QA meeting earlier this week,
and tried to set up a wireless network following your
instructions. We had only limited success. Gerald should
be able to fill in more of the details than I, but here
is what I recall:
- Gerald and I were able to have our Linux machines talk
to each other, and we used iptables to do masquerading
(Linux kernel 2.4.5; I had to recompile to have the
proper support). The iptables command we used was:
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
You might want to add iptables to your page since apparently ipchains
is now deprecated.
- We had little luck with getting dhcpd to work on my
machine. It was very flaky - it seemed to work once (i.e.,
Gerald got an IP address) but after that, we only had
success with static IPs. Here's my /etc/dhcpd.conf:
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.20;
option routers 192.168.1.1;
option domain-name-servers 18.29.0.200;
option domain-name "localhost";
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
}
- The other machines around the table were a Mac (Karl) and two Windows
machines. Try as we might, we could not get those machines to join
our
network. However, they seemed to recognize each other (i.e., detect
other cards, but no luck with IP addresses, etc.).
- We weren't clear on the significance of the ESSID and CHANNEL
parameters
of the wireless interfaces. In the end, the config that seemed to
work was
when the value of ESSID was "any" (and not, for example, "Chaos").
There
was some question about whether ad-hoc mode was appropriate with the
Windows and Mac systems. All of this part of the configuration
escapes
me.
So, while we had minor successes, it was on the whole a frustrating
experience. Gerald and I had a little IRC chat going locally, but we
couldn't get everyone connected. Which may have been a good thing as
(1) it would have been a distraction from the meeting and (2) I would
have had less bandwidth for myself over the 56k line. :)
- Ian
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