Re: using an old laptop as a base station

["Roberto Sanchez" <sanchezr@hotmail.com>]

> Le 12161ième jour après Epoch, drew cohan écrivait:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know where I can find information on how to build a wireless
> > base station from an old laptop using debian?  As of right now, I've 
> been
> > able to setup a 486 laptop with eth0 & eth1, eth0 being wired and eth1 
> being
> > a wireless card under debian 3.0r1 with bf2.4 kernel (works well).  What 
> I
> > don't know how to do is to take information from eth0 and pass it onto 
> eth1
> > to act as a wireless base station.
>
> Do the same with wired cards :)
>
> Specify ip_forward=yes into /etc/network/options is the first step. There 
> is
> probably a good HOWTO describing routing linux systems.

I use firestarter.  It is a GTK+ (also works under Window Maker) app that 
builds you an iptables script.  It has a neat little wizard that asks you if 
you want to enable things like ipmasquerading, certain ports and services, 
and then builds you script and starts the filtering services.

-Roberto


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