Bridging wifi to ethernet
Douglas Phillipson
douglas at intermind.net
Sun Feb 5 19:58:03 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:25, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>
>>My LUG recently had to move to a Library with WIFI access only. Running
>>FC4 on my HP Pavilion laptop, how specifically, can I bridge my WIFI
>>interface (eth1) over to my eth0 interface so I can hook in all the
>>wired ethernet users to get access to the WIFI networks DHCP server? I
>>don't have to recompile a Kernel I hope... I can still use my laptop
>>normally while I'm bridging for everyone else I hope?
>
>
> A simpler approach that is also more likely to work would be
> to set up a different private address range on the wired side
> and a dhcp server for it, then route and NAT to the wireless
> interface. The only tricky part is that you either have
> to run your own caching dns server and point the dhcp clients
> to it, or you'll have to pick up the DNS server you receive
> from the wireless DHCP and edit your dhcpd.conf to pass that
> on to the clients.
>
The magic part I don't know how to do is "route and NAT". Can you
point me to an example on how to route and NAT between interfaces? Is
this a IPTables thing?
Thanks
Doug P
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