Re: laptop into access point?

[tom]

On 02/29/2008 10:04:10 AM, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
>  El Viernes, 29 de Febrero de 2008 15:49, Mark Greenbank
>  escribió: 
<<snip>>
>  Well, you just need a couple of iptables rules, as long as
>  you have your
>  wireless card properly configurated.
>  This what I'm using to use my laptop as a gateway to a
>  wired network (notice
>  I'm turning it into an ad-hoc mode)
>  
>  #!/bin/bash
>  iwconfig eth0 mode ad-hoc
>  iwconfig eth0 essid AP
>  iwconfig eth0 key s:yourkey
>  iwconfig eth0 channel 6
>  ifconfig eth0 192.168.70.1 up
>  iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE
>  iptables -I FORWARD -i eth0 -j ACCEPT
>  echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 
<<snip>>
I scratched a similar itch with a linksys travel device,  
but this is close to what I wanted to do originally. Thanks  
for the starting point!