Joining wireless and wired networks

2009-06-03 Thread James Allsopp
Hi,
I've a computer at home I'm using for a network gateway, which has two
ethernet cards and a wireless card. One of the ethernet cards connects
to the outside world and the wireless side of the network connects to
the internet using iptables to provide NAT and forward the packets over.
The system is also running a dhcp server for the providing IP addresses
to the wireless clients.

What I want to do now is bring in the other ethernet card so computers
attached to that part of the network can connect to the internet and
access the services of the other machines on the network, regardless of
whether they're on the gateway or the wireless network.

I was considering bridging the wireless and the wired networks, but just
wanted to ask for opinions, other options. I''m loooking at eventually
getting a job working with linux systems, so it doesn't have to be a
what would be best in a home environment solution.

Thanks for the help,
James

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Re: Joining wireless and wired networks

2009-06-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
James Allsopp wrote:
 Hi,
 I've a computer at home I'm using for a network gateway, which has two
 ethernet cards and a wireless card. One of the ethernet cards connects
 to the outside world and the wireless side of the network connects to
 the internet using iptables to provide NAT and forward the packets over.
 The system is also running a dhcp server for the providing IP addresses
 to the wireless clients.
 
 What I want to do now is bring in the other ethernet card so computers
 attached to that part of the network can connect to the internet and
 access the services of the other machines on the network, regardless of
 whether they're on the gateway or the wireless network.
 
 I was considering bridging the wireless and the wired networks, but just
 wanted to ask for opinions, other options. I''m loooking at eventually
 getting a job working with linux systems, so it doesn't have to be a
 what would be best in a home environment solution.
 
 Thanks for the help,
 James
 
Setting up a bridge interface using the two NICs is probably the
simplest. But if you want to play, you could put each NIC on its own
subnet, and set up routing between them. It isn't too hard if you
are using static addressing. If you are using dhcp, setting up the
dhcp server is interesting.

Mikkel
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