Wireless Ethernet Bridge Setup
I've reached my limit on researching how to set up the above on my SuSE 9.1 system. I'm trying to piggy-back off my roommate's DSL/wireless router. Assuming I have configured the device itself correctly (a big if mind you) within the web interface and assuming there is a signal coming through to the computer's ethernet port, how do I get the OS to see it and let me get my email? At first I thought I would use the DSL module in YAST2 but I'm not actually configuring an account of my own, just using someone else's. I know this must seem really basic to most of you, but I'm stumped by the networking/wireless kind of stuff. If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be grateful. Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA USA) cygnia@sonic.net
On Monday 24 May 2004 08:23 pm, cygnia@sonic.net wrote: | I've reached my limit on researching how to set up the above on my | SuSE 9.1 system. I'm trying to piggy-back off my roommate's | DSL/wireless router. Bryce, Just to be clear, I'm presuming you have an Ethernet NIC in your SuSE box, connected by an Ethernet cable to a wireless bridge, and that you want the wireless bridge to provide you access to your friend's wireless network. Let's say your friend's wireless network runs on 192.168.1.0/24. Let's also presume: 1. Your friend's DSL modem/router has a public (WAN) IP of we-don't-care and a private (LAN) IP of 192.168.1.1. 2. Your wireless bridge has been configured to use a fixed IP address of 192.168.1.30, with a gateway of 192.168.1.1. 3. In YaST, configure your network card to have: A fixed IP of 192.168.1.254 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 A gateway of 192.168.1.1 Two DNS server IP addresses equal to the public IPs of your friend's DSL provider's DNS servers. A third DNS server of 192.168.1.1 (may or may not work; depends on the router). 4. Open a web browser from your Linux box and try http://192.168.1.30 - Do you get the admin interface for the bridge? If so, your connection is fine between your PC and the bridge. If this doesn't work, nothing else will. 5. Open a web browser and try http://192.168.1.1 - Do you get the admin interface for the DSL/router? If so, your connection is fine between to the router. 6. Open a web browser and try http://www.cnn.com - If the page renders, you now have an Internet connection! If not, check the DNS server IP addresses again, turn off the SuSE firewall (for the moment) and try again. Notes: Make sure your friend isn't using 192.168.1.254 for an IP address in his network! If his router runs DHCP, probably it is assigning lower numbers first. You can/must change the private IP net above to match your friend's network. So, if he's running, say, 192.168.22.xxx, then every device must have a 192.168.22.xxx address for the chain of devices to be able to talk to each other in this case. It's a good idea to secure the wireless network too; I'm presuming you and/or your friend are comfortable with doing that (if not, just ask!) Hope this helps, Mark -- _____________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.RNoME.com
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