Re: XP + Wireless + Linux question

From: Webmaster (Webmaster_at_freewebspace.planetdns.net)
Date: 07/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 06:31:05 GMT

I have a slightly different arrangement.
I altered your diagram to reflect my setup.

The laptop has a default gateway that is set to the ip address linux box.
It also obtains its dns info from the linux box.

The linux box forwards all traffic using iptables masquerading.
Essentially, I only need the wireless router for the laptop. So I keep it
behind my primary firewall, which is the linux box.

Anyway, just an alternate suggestion.

Josh Beck

On 22 Jul 2004, kurt miller wrote:

> Andrew Kelly <Andrew.Kelly@motorola.com> wrote in message news:<40FE09FE.CEC5189A@motorola.com>...
> > After several failled attempts to reply to this thread, I hope this works!
> >
>
> THanks to everyone who got back to me! I'm not sure why the replies
> aren't coming through but today I finally checked the NG and saw them.
>
> Here is the scenario...
>
> +------------+ +--------------------+
> | | | |~~~~ +--------------+
> | Internet |-<<<>>>-| Linux Box | | |
> | | | | | XP |
> +------------+ +--------------------+ | |
> | | | | +--------------+
> |
> +--------------------+ |
> | | |
> | Router +-----+
> | wireless |
> | +--------------+----------------+
> +--------------------+ | |
> | laptop |
> | |
> +----------------+
>
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) In this configuration, does anything special need to happen for
> the XP box to communicate with the laptop as a windows client
> (NETBIOS/IPX/etc)?
>
> 2) How is traffic exiting the Linux box get routed into internet
> bound and internal only? Is that something I will need to configure?
>
> 3) Will IPTABLES need adjustment to allow the internal windows client
> traffic to flow unimpeeded?
>
> As you can tell I'm still learning this stuff. Thanks for your
> patience.
>
> -km
>

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