Linux wireless router (doable?)

[Josh Johnson]

Nevermind my last post. I don't know what I was thinking. Kyle's answer 
looks more like what you're looking for.

-JoshJ
http://lotuseaters.no-ip.com

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, kobear at sharedbrain.net wrote:

> 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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