Hi All I really need your help on this. I have a network card configured as wlan0 which connects me to the Internet. I also have an other network card ( eth0) which i want to use as a Locale network. I have a cable connection from the last one to another computer. Now how can I bridge those cards so that the other computer can connect to the Internet as well? I looked on the SuSE 9.2 disk and installed the *bridge tools* but I'm stuck at what to do next. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks. -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."
Bill Wisse wrote:
I have a network card configured as wlan0 which connects me to the Internet.
I also have an other network card ( eth0) which i want to use as a Locale network.
I have a cable connection from the last one to another computer.
This needs to be a crossover cable and not a regular Ethernet.
Now how can I bridge those cards so that the other computer can connect to the Internet as well?
Use SuSEfirewall2 to masquerade the internal network to the external wlan0. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
On Saturday 11 December 2004 16:42, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Bill Wisse wrote:
I have a network card configured as wlan0 which connects me to the Internet.
I also have an other network card ( eth0) which i want to use as a Locale network.
I have a cable connection from the last one to another computer.
This needs to be a crossover cable and not a regular Ethernet.
Yes, that's the one I have.
Now how can I bridge those cards so that the other computer can connect to the Internet as well?
Use SuSEfirewall2 to masquerade the internal network to the external wlan0.
Joe, Just to make sure that I understand this right. I go to Yast>> security>> Firewall and set this up with the right mac addresses. After I've done that there will be a link between the two networks and my other computer has access to the Internet as well? Sorry if it sounds a bit stupid and I appreciate your help. Here on our little Island I'm the only one who runs Linux and I'm not an expert by far. -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."
Bill Wisse wrote:
Now how can I bridge those cards so that the other computer can connect to the Internet as well?
Use SuSEfirewall2 to masquerade the internal network to the external wlan0.
Joe, Just to make sure that I understand this right. I go to Yast>> security>> Firewall and set this up with the right mac addresses.
Yes, just make sure you enable "Forward Traffic and Do Masquerading" in the setup, and you should be online with the other computer.
After I've done that there will be a link between the two networks
This is accomplished by the crossover cable. With this you should be able to communicate on your local lan.
and my other computer has access to the Internet as well?
This is accomplished by the firewall's forwarding and masquerading, since the IP address of the internal machine cannot send packets to the internet directly.
Sorry if it sounds a bit stupid and I appreciate your help. Here on our little Island I'm the only one who runs Linux and I'm not an expert by far.
No problem. BTW, even though I just checked out Yast's firewall setup, I still prefer to edit /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 directly, as it has so many very helpful comments in it which sometimes you cannot see in the gui. In your situation, though, the 9.2 Yast seems quite good and should get you going very easily. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
On Saturday 11 December 2004 10:04 pm, Bill Wisse wrote:
On Saturday 11 December 2004 16:42, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Bill Wisse wrote:
I have a network card configured as wlan0 which connects me to the Internet.
I also have an other network card ( eth0) which i want to use as a Locale network.
I have a cable connection from the last one to another computer.
Bill, if you get as frustrated as I did trying to set up the SuSEfirewall, have a look at Shorewall at shorewall.net. It has installation guides that will lead you by the hand to firewall nirvana without having to know anything about iptables, unless you want to know that kind of stuff. Read the two interface guide and you should be up and running in a half hour. The author even includes some prettty pictures to help guide you along. Richard -- Old age ain't for Sissies!
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