On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, 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.

I did the same but using two boxes, and I have a few problems :)
I have one box, doing ppp on one side and "normal" eth on the other side.
It is then connected via a hub to another box, in charge of the wireless.

The ppp box is doing ipmasq, dns, dhcp for the machines physically
connected to the hub.
The wireless box is doing dhcp for the wireless machines and is acting
like a router, ie: not doing masquerading
(yes I will document that ;) )
everything is fine except that when I use netscape on a wireless box,
connections tends to hang after the ppp is disconnected and the machine in
sleep mode (it was not the case when the machine was directly before the
nat box)
One other pb, when the wireless card goes in sleep mode, it wakes up with
the right settings except one... the channel :/

> Eric Prud'hommeaux replicated my installation using Debian install disks
> and a tar ball of the whole system (it's only 40MB when gzipped although
> Eric couldn't find gzip on Debian's rescue/root disks) pretty easily to
> install one at home. Maybe I should make this tar ball available on my
> site after removing a few passwords if that's useful.

yeah, linux-wireless-router project!

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