[LUAU] Add dhcp wlan on existing static lan
Aloha, I want to add a dhcp NetGear WPN824v3 wireless leg for 2 laptops (1 MS7 and 1 Ubuntu Linux) on my existing static IP lan of 10 desktops and servers (all FreeBSD). I run fixed IP on both segments now using 192.168.1.x addresses but would like to have dhcp segment on the wireless side since the laptops have to be reconfigured every time they come back on my home/office lan. Has anyone on our list had experience with this or knows of a how-to? Thanks, ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Add dhcp wlan on existing static lan
Hi Al, Give the wireless AP a static IP and create a scope that doesn't interfere with what you are using for your desktops. So if your desktops are all in the 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.120 range set the dhcp server to only give out addresses that are not in that range. A better idea might be to use vlans so that when a laptop does come on to your network, if it is compromised or infected, it will not be able to infect the rest of your network. Hope that helps, Jon On Feb 13, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: Aloha, I want to add a dhcp NetGear WPN824v3 wireless leg for 2 laptops (1 MS7 and 1 Ubuntu Linux) on my existing static IP lan of 10 desktops and servers (all FreeBSD). I run fixed IP on both segments now using 192.168.1.x addresses but would like to have dhcp segment on the wireless side since the laptops have to be reconfigured every time they come back on my home/ office lan. Has anyone on our list had experience with this or knows of a how-to? Thanks, ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Add dhcp wlan on existing static lan
Jon, wouldn't that count as a separate LAN? What I've done in the past is to use a dd-wrt capable router and set it to bridging mode so it forwards requests on to the router on the main LAN. That would allow you to set static IP's for the computers on wireless. Of course that isn't exactly what Al asked for. Jason On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jon Reynolds j...@destar.net wrote: Hi Al, Give the wireless AP a static IP and create a scope that doesn't interfere with what you are using for your desktops. So if your desktops are all in the 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.120 range set the dhcp server to only give out addresses that are not in that range. A better idea might be to use vlans so that when a laptop does come on to your network, if it is compromised or infected, it will not be able to infect the rest of your network. Hope that helps, Jon On Feb 13, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: Aloha, I want to add a dhcp NetGear WPN824v3 wireless leg for 2 laptops (1 MS7 and 1 Ubuntu Linux) on my existing static IP lan of 10 desktops and servers (all FreeBSD). I run fixed IP on both segments now using 192.168.1.x addresses but would like to have dhcp segment on the wireless side since the laptops have to be reconfigured every time they come back on my home/office lan. Has anyone on our list had experience with this or knows of a how-to? Thanks, ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Add dhcp wlan on existing static lan
Jason Axelson wrote: Jon, wouldn't that count as a separate LAN? What I've done in the past is to use a dd-wrt capable router and set it to bridging mode so it forwards requests on to the router on the main LAN. That would allow you to set static IP's for the computers on wireless. Of course that isn't exactly what Al asked for. Jason On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jon Reynolds j...@destar.net wrote: Hi Al, Give the wireless AP a static IP and create a scope that doesn't interfere with what you are using for your desktops. So if your desktops are all in the 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.120 range set the dhcp server to only give out addresses that are not in that range. A better idea might be to use vlans so that when a laptop does come on to your network, if it is compromised or infected, it will not be able to infect the rest of your network. Hope that helps, Jon On Feb 13, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: Aloha, I want to add a dhcp NetGear WPN824v3 wireless leg for 2 laptops (1 MS7 and 1 Ubuntu Linux) on my existing static IP lan of 10 desktops and servers (all FreeBSD). I run fixed IP on both segments now using 192.168.1.x addresses but would like to have dhcp segment on the wireless side since the laptops have to be reconfigured every time they come back on my home/office lan. Has anyone on our list had experience with this or knows of a how-to? Thanks, ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol Aloha, That would allow you to set static IP's for the computers on wireless. That is sort of what I have now. I want to make the wlan use DHCP to hook onto these 2 laptops. By creating a vlan on the NetGear wireless router like 192.168.1.100 /192.168.120 for instance. I'm not sure of the way to do it on the NetGear wireless router. which has 192.168.1.1 as its address on the wired lan -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + email: n...@hdk5.net All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Add dhcp wlan on existing static lan
That is sort of what I have now. I want to make the wlan use DHCP to hook onto these 2 laptops. By creating a vlan on the NetGear wireless router like 192.168.1.100 /192.168.120 for instance. I'm not sure of the way to do it on the NetGear wireless router. which has 192.168.1.1 as its address on the wired lan I am not quite sure what you are wanting Al. If you just want to be able to have your laptops get an IP from DHCP then just setup a DHCP server with your Netgear. If your workstations and servers already have a static IP they will keep these even if there is a DHCP server on the network. Static IPs trump DHCP so you don't have to worry about your statically assigned systems getting a DHCP address. Your router and/or switches would need to be vlan aware to create a vlan. You could just create a separate network altogether, say 192.168.2.* and do as Jason suggested. Then use your router to allow access between the two networks. Hope that helps, Jon ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Add dhcp wlan on existing static lan
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:46:50AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, I want to add a dhcp NetGear WPN824v3 wireless leg for 2 laptops (1 MS7 and 1 Ubuntu Linux) on my existing static IP lan of 10 desktops and servers (all FreeBSD). I run fixed IP on both segments now using 192.168.1.x addresses but would like to have dhcp segment on the wireless side since the laptops have to be reconfigured every time they come back on my home/office lan. Has anyone on our list had experience with this or knows of a how-to? One easy way to do it is install a DHCP daemon (e.g. isc-dhcpd) on one of the FreeBSD servers, or on whatever you're using for a firewall, configure the DHCP server to use a specific subrange of addresses for its clients (and/or configure static address assignments into the DHCP server bound to the MACs for your statically assigned machines), and configure the NetGear in bridging mode. I've done basically that for years. One caveat since you mention Ubuntu: Since I upgraded my Ubuntu Dell laptop from 8.4 LTS to 10.10 last month, it's entirely lost wireless access. No idea as yet whether it's its wireless DHCP client code, its WPA supplicant, or what, but I've been disappointed with this loss of functionality and haven't yet found time to put it back onto a wired port and figure out what I need to do to fix it. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- clift...@iandicomputing.com / clift...@lava.net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
