On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, dep wrote: > greets, folks! > > i am hoping to do a little bit of wirelessness here, largely -- no, > entirely -- so that my wife can take her notebook machine out of her > office and up by the fireplace (it was several degrees below zero > here again this morning). problem is, i already have a nice hardwired > network set up here, the lone purpose of which is to firewall and to > give all the machines internet access via the cable modem. i am not > especially eager to move everything to wireless. > > what i'm wondering, then, is whether it's possible to use one of the > existing ports on my router, put a wireless box on it, put a wireless > pcmcia nic in the notebook, and have it all work. and, if so, whether > there's any special trick to making it work. it seems as if this > ought to be okay, but it might also be that there would be some sort > of dhcp collision or something, by chaining a wireless box (router, > right?) after another router.
That should work. I've got a similar setup at home with DSL. Here's how mine is setup: outside world | DSL-modem | Firewall/NAT/Gateway linux box (eth0=external IP, eth1=10.x.x.x internal IP) | 8 port switch | | | | | | | |__ primary desktop box | | | | | | |__ secondary desktop box | | | | | |__ unused cat5 line | | | | |__ unused cat5 line | | | |__ server | | |__ unused cat5 line | |__ unused cat5 line |__ wifi access point note, that i'm not doing DHCP at all, other than the PPoE that my DSL requires for the outside facing connection. I just assign static IPs to everything on my internal network. Since my internal network isn't large, and i 'control' all the possible users, its just easier this way for me, plus i don't have to worry about DHCP issues. At any rate, my wifi access point (a Belkin unit that is configured via SNMP in Linux, no windoze here, thank you) has a static IP assigned to it, and has a gateway address of my Firewall box (just like any of the other boxes on my home network). I've got two laptops, each with Cisco Aironet PCMCIA cards. Other than building the modules to support the cards, it was a snap to setup, and works flawlessly. Let me know if you have more questions. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
