Linux wireless router (doable?)

kobear at sharedbrain.net kobear at sharedbrain.net
Thu Aug 11 15:08:37 EDT 2005


This should be simple.  The Wireless Card is just a NIC.  Setup a seperate
subnet for your wireless segment, make sure that you have routing enabled in
your kernel, setup a route to the wireless network on your linux box, and set
all of your Wireless devices to have their default gateway be the IP of the
Wireless NIC on your linux box.


This should work without a problem.  I did this about 3 years ago.  Can't
remember all the steps, but that is basically what it took.

HTH,
Kyle


Quoting Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com>:

> OK, this one should be simple but searching the net gives me pages with tons
> of
> information and no real answer.
>
> Can I make a linux box into a wireless router?  The situation is this:  I
> know
> someone with a linux box that just got a Powerlink connection.  He wants to
> stuff a wireless card in the linux box and use IPTABLES to make the linux box
> into a firewall for wireless.  The real question is whether or not a wireless
> card in a linux box can be made to look like a wireless hub.  I haven't
> worked
> that much with wireless to know what can be done.  If I can get the card to
> be
> the other end of the connection, then getting DHCP, IPTABLES and other things
> running should be a snap.
>
> Please don't tell me how cheap a WRT54G is.  I know already but the person
> that
> wants to do this doesn't want an external router.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Bob
>
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