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>> I travel with a strong external antenna for picking up faint wireless |
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>> signals. It works great, but my girlfriend struggles to connect with |
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>> her built-in antenna. I do have a travel router (D-Link DWL-G730) so |
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>> I'd like to be able to do something like this: |
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>> WAN->my laptop->travel router->girlfriend's laptop |
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> That sounds right to me. Read on... |
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>> I use wicd and I'm not sure how to go about this, especially since my |
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>> laptop DHCPs for an IP from the WAN so I'm not sure how to define the |
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>> gateway for the travel router when following this: |
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> I don't have experience with wicd or the DWL-G730, but I did do a |
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> little research on those and have suggestions. |
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> If I were setting this up myself it would be with another Wifi card in |
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> AP mode, which I'd be running DHCP on. In that case, the client (in |
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> this case your girlfriend's laptop) would be given a DHCP address and a |
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> default route of my AP's address. Alternately I might forego the DHCP |
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> server setup and instruct the client to set a particular IP and route |
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> (the route would be my AP's IP). In either case, nameservers could be |
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> copied directly from "my laptop" to the client's, or "my laptop" could |
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> supply its own IP for nameserver and provide DNS service or proxy |
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> itself. |
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> "My laptop" would then have a route through the AP for internal traffic, |
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> and use the (dhcp provided) default route for other traffic. |
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> Therefore, the AP would never need to specify the IP of the external |
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> connection. |
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> The client box would route all traffic through the AP's IP so it |
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> wouldn't need to know the external IP either. |
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> "My laptop" would have to run IPTables for NAT. You'll need network |
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> address translation because external IPs like websites won't be able to |
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> route to the client box's IP. NAT gets around this. |
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> The AP provided by "my laptop" must also be on a different subnet than |
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> the external network "my laptop" is connected to. If "my laptop" was |
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> connected to an access point offering a 192.168.1.0/24 subnet, for |
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> example, a seperate subnet like 192.168.2.0/24 ought to be used on the |
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> "client side" of "my laptop". Personally I'd probably use an rfc class |
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> b subnet since they're rare, or another rare subnet like |
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> 192.168.66.0/24. |
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>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml |
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>> Is there a simple way to pull this off? |
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> In short, no, but it's not too complicated, and the home router guide |
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> will help you, but using your travel router may make things more |
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> complicated. The travel router probably will itself provide NAT and |
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> DHCP so I'm not sure without playing with one how it would look to set |
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> it up that way. You might want to provide those services yourself and |
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> use the travel router as an AP instead. |
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Thanks Dan. No matter what I do, I can't get the other laptop to |
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communicate with my laptop. It can ping the router which is between |
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us, but it can't get to the other side. I've got dnsmasq and |
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shorewall running on my laptop. Any idea what the problem could be? |
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- Grant |
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