I have placed a wireless linksys wrt54g router between my bering leaf box and my local network. The ethernet network between leaf and wrt54g I have assigned to network 192.168.10.x and the local network is 192.169.1.x, From the local network (some hosts directly wired to wrt54g eth switch and others wireless) I can ping the wrt54g and the leaf box. I can also see the embedded web server on the leaf boxfrom the lan/wlan. However, I cannot ping or connect to any address on the internet from my local network. I can also ping the leaf box from the wrt54g but cannot ping a real internet host.
NAT is turned on on the leaf box and is on by default on the wrt54g (there may be a undocumented way to turn it off). Or this may not be an issue. My question is should this theoretically work and, if so, what might I be doing wrong?
Tks, -gene
P/S: My leaf box has been working fine for years and would like to keep using it. I would just as soon the linksys box could just act as a dumb "wireless hub" and continue using the leaf box as is. However, the wrt54g does work ok as the main router (without the leaf box) but requires custom firmware to add things like sshd, shorewall etc.
Went back and looked at this list's archives closer and discovered a thread where it was talked about connecting a similar linksys box without using the "internet" connector. You can just connect the leaf output (local) ethernet to any of the 4 wired eth switch inputs on the wrt54g. I have always used static local addresses so I set the wrt54g (internet and local to be safe) to the static address 192.168.1.1 and I set my local hosts (wired and wireless) to their static address and set the wrt54g to "router" as opposed to "gateway" mode under advanced routing options. Also under advanced routing I disabled dynamic routing and set no static routes. I don't run a dhcp server in the leaf box but that would probably also work for assigning local address. Possibly the wrt54g address could be dynaically assigned too. All my local host point to leaf as their gateway and dns host.
At sometime I hope to get around to upgrading the wrt54g to have functionality similar to leaf (openWRT, sveasoft etc.) but for now this does seem to work (possibly a bit slower since packets have to traverse an additional stack and leaf box is pretty weak). Any consideration of porting leaf to wrt54g or its bigger bro. wrt54gs which are (embedded) linux boxes too? --gene
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