Praedor Tempus wrote: >I have a setup question in getting a home network going. >I have a desktop system which connects to the net by dialup (at the moment). I >have a PCI-to-PCMCIA adaptor for a pcmcia wlan card and a USB wlan - >whichever I can get working first stays. > >I also have a laptop with a wlan card. What I want to do is have the desktop >act as an access point for my laptop and then have the laptop/desktop share >the modem connection to the net. > >My question regards gateway and gateway device. > >I think I understand this but can someone help me? On the desktop, the >connection is, as stated, via /dev/modem. Do I leave the gateway address >alone and set gateway device to /dev/modem? Do I leave both alone? > >On the laptop I assume I just set gateway to the IP of the wlan card on the >desktop (the access point) which is 10.0.0.1. Do I leave gateway device >unset/alone or do I set it to wlan0 (or eth0 as the case may be)? > >Finally, a question on another matter. Is there anyone in the list with a DSL >account (dynamic, not static IP) that also makes use of dynamic dns services >(dydns)? If so, how do you set THAT up? I assume you have a DSL >router/modem that probably runs a NAT network for your system(s). If this is >the case, how do you get dydns updated with your IP address? If your DSL >router assigns your system address 10.0.0.5, then obviously updating dydns >with that IP will fail and I doubt there is a client app that can be loaded >on a DSL router that will keep dydns updated...or is there? > >praedor > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Whoa, take a coffeeless break.
gateway device will be like ppp0 for the desktop and eth0/wlan0 for the laptop. Now with DSL I use the sharing (masquerading) computer as the router and the DSL modem without any routing. For dynamic, I take a domain I own and point to some nameservers that will let me update them on a 5-minute basis. "Crackerjack" does this (used to be for free, but now $4 per year per domain) at http://www.whyi.org. He also supplies a dandy Perl script that does the updating of your current IP address for your domain. But you don't need DSL for this--it also works on modems, both of the cable and telephone kind. These days, I subscribe to a cable service which adds a static IP plus double speed on uploads and downl;oads for $10/month extra. I was using DSL but I was paying $50/month more for the same level of service, and a lower transfer limit, and I had more vendors in the mix, like the local telephone company which managed to hardwire me to the wrong VLAN and took more than a week to fix it (I don't know how much more because I was on cable before they fixed it). I am sure the ISP that was offering DSL wasn't too happy because they lost more than 50 customers in that period. Civileme
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