Re: Bridged Network Question
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:09:48PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> I have been using an old laptop as an Access Point for our laptops to
> connect to the internet through the main box -> modem connection.
> The Lan (eth0) is bridged with a Netgear WG511U PCMCIA card (ath0) to
> connect to the gatway computer.
>
> It works fine, as an AP, but has one problem. The AP itself can not
> connect to the internet through the gatway. The only way to update
> the AP's software is to change /etc/network/interfaces from the
> bridged setup to just a Lan setup, reboot, do the update/upgrade,
> change the interfaces file back to the bridged mode and reboot again.
> I would like to move the AP to an old 500Mhz headless box so that I
> can setup the firewall and a mailserver, etc on it and free up the
> laptop. I can't see how to do that with the above problem.
I've never needed bridge and I'm wondering why you do? Bridging makes
the two networks look like one, but expecially when you start
firewalling, they need to be different. For details on setting this up,
read the shorewall-doc package, even if you don't want to use shorewall.
Doug.
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