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RE: [PLUG] Bridging two networks using linux
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You'll love this one. Pre-depression era house? What wires and maybe
even gaslines still exist in the walls and floors between you and your
object? I found all sorts of weird impedimenta including the original
water lines and even the lines for gas lighting no longer used but fully
charged. And what was used to hold the plaster up? If the house is just
pre-depression, someone could have used chicken wire to solve the problem
caused by the, to them, novel problem that there was no more steady supply
of horsehair.
bs
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Molnar, Bradley wrote:
> thanks, i'll try this in an hour or so.
>
> One of the problems with giving the desktop a wireless card (totally aside
> from the cost b/c I think there might be an extra one if I pull it from
> somewhere else and replace it with an ISA version). However, this wouldn't
> fully solve the problem.
>
> An unfortunate side effect of living in a pre-depression era house (other
> than lead pipes) is that the various wall materials do not allow for the
> wireless signals to pass properly. There is something in my room that only
> allows the one half of the room access to the wireless connection (it comes
> from the floor below), and this does not include the half where the desk
> (and the computer) are.
>
> Yes I know, completly messed up.
>
> Just so I know (if I don't figure it out on my own) would I have to make my
> desktop a different ip address range, or will the dhcp pass properly
> through? And if so, would 'Laptop A' be the router?
>
> thanks
> -brad
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeyes, David (371)
> To: 'plug@lists.phillylinux.org'
> Sent: 6/2/03 13:52
> Subject: RE: [PLUG] Bridging two networks using linux
>
> > Brad wrote:
> >
> >
> > Back in the day, the RG-1000 WAS the dsl router as well (the
> > family computer
> > has a wireless card which will be removed in the next couple
> > of weeks or
> > so).
> >
> > The Netgear is NOT a wireless version - it wasn't needed, we
> > already had the
> > RG-1000. It is just a cable/dsl router with a 4-port
> > ethernet hub. The
> > RG-1000 is simply a link between the wired and wireless
> > networks (well,
> > there is usually only one machine on the wired network). The
> > netgear is
> > also the dhcp server (although it would be somewhat trivial
> > to set this up
> > on another machine).
>
> So the netgear is for the wireless network and the RG-1000 is their WAP?
> That doesn't sound unreasonable if they didn't get a box that could do
> both. You couldn't either plug into the wired network or put a wireless
> card in your desktop?
>
> If you want to do a simple solution without it being bridging, then you
> can simply allow ip forwarding and your laptop will simply pass on the
> packets without masqing them.
>
> 1. alter the parameter in /etc/network that says ipforward to true.
> 2. make sure you give your desktop a gateway and dns parameter.
>
> Note: this isn't a true bridge because the laptop will still have an ip
> address instead of being completely transparent, but there's no reason
> that it should matter AFAIK.
>
> Hope this helps,
> dj
>
>
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