Re: Wireless internet access through LAN
- From: Jurgen Haan <jurgen@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:02:00 +0200
sb5309@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Current setup
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My company operates a LAN for about 40 PCs and above. There is a rack
of hubs/switches, to which PCs are connected; a Linux Fedora server is
one of them.
Internet access is provided through the server, to which an ADSL modem
is connected (Lucent CellPipe); in other words, internet traffic is
routed through the server (it has 2 network cards).
The company now wants to replace the modem with a wireless broadband
modem (with iBurst technology); ie PCs go through LAN, through the
server, to the wireless modem for internet access.
Questions
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1. Using the current setup, how do go about changing the driver,
settings to configuring the server ? (I am next to nothing about Linux
system, except aome basic commands; I got to access the server barely
2 days ago).
2. Can I connect the wireless modem to one of the hubs/switches
instead (may be through a router) of the the server ?
Thanks.
I'm not entirely sure if I understand your question correctly, But if
your server provides the ADSL access, this is either done through a DMZ
or through a PPP connection from the server, right?
In case of the DMZ, using the Wifi is not that much of a problem, but it
will probably only be able to connect to the internet through the modem,
and not to the network, unless you open up your DMZ, but probably not a
good idea.
In case of the PPP connection, you won't have any connectivity through
the wireless part of the modem. (since it's outside the network.)
You could fix this by using custom routing on the modem itself, if it
support it.
But the best option, as stated by someone else, just by an wireless AP.
It costs less than what you cost by making it work. And it's probably a
bit cleaner and better maintainable.
-R-
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