[olug] Re: Wireless Help

Sam Tetherow tetherow at nicusa.com
Wed Oct 22 14:07:11 UTC 2003


Do you have the RH box set up to route traffic for the wireless IP?

ip address add 10.0.1.38 dev eth0

(replace eth0 with whatever the device for the wired interface is).
You could also just bridge everything from the wired interface to the 
wireless interface although I would strongly recommend against it from 
both a security standpoint as well as a bandwidth standpoint especially 
if you have any real traffic on the wired interface.

Joe Catanzaro wrote:
> Sam, thanks for the response, but both of those are set correctly. After 
> much research I'm still at a standstill. It appears I'm still struggling 
> with routing. Again, I'm trying to get a windows laptop to talk to a RH 
> 7.3 box, and then to the rest of my network. The wireless stuff is 
> working great. I can ping the RH wi-fi interface (10.0.1.1) from the 
> laptop and I can also ping the wired interface (10.0.0.5) from the 
> laptop, but nothing beyond that. So, I'm assuming I have a routing issue 
> on the RH box. I'm missing something obvious, but I don't know what. 
> Here are the details. Any ideas?   Thanks,
> 
> www   ---   Firewall     ---     RH 7.3 box     ~~~     Win 98 laptop
>                   10.0.0.1         10.0.0.5  10.0.1.1          10.0.1.38
> 
> [root at scooter network-scripts]# more ifcfg-wlan0
> DEVICE=wlan0
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=static
> IPADDR=10.0.1.1
> BROADCAST=10.0.1.255
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> GATEWAY=10.0.0.5
> NETWORK=10.0.1.0
> 
> [root at scooter network-scripts]# more ifcfg-eth0
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=static
> BROADCAST=10.0.0.255
> IPADDR=10.0.0.5
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=10.0.0.0
> ONBOOT=yes
> GATEWAY=10.0.0.1
> 
> [root at scooter network-scripts]# more ../network
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=scooter
> 
> [root at scooter network-scripts]# route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
> Iface
> 10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 
> eth0
> 10.0.1.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 
> wlan0
> 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
> 0.0.0.0         10.0.0.1        0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 
> eth0
> 
> [root at scooter network-scripts]# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> 1
> 
> [root at scooter network-scripts]# ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:97:23:F9:24
>           inet addr:10.0.0.5  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:5098 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:2861 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:569507 (556.1 Kb)  TX bytes:316540 (309.1 Kb)
>           Interrupt:15 Base address:0x5000
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:296 (296.0 b)  TX bytes:296 (296.0 b)
> 
> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:88:8B:68:87
>           inet addr:10.0.1.1  Bcast:10.0.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:37 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:327 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:2108 (2.0 Kb)  TX bytes:70662 (69.0 Kb)
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0x5040
> 
> Windows Laptop
>         IP Address    10.0.1.38
>         Gateway    10.0.1.1
>         Subnet Mask    255.255.255.0
> 
> 
> 
> At 10/21/2003 08:25 AM Tuesday, you wrote:
> 
>> From the sounds of it you are either missing the default route in the 
>> laptop.
>>    'route add default gw IP_OF_DESKTOP'
>>
>> Or you don't have ip forwarding turned on on the desktop (which lets 
>> it forward traffic for another machine.)
>>
>>   echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>>
>> Joe Catanzaro wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the response. Actually what I'm doing is setting up a RH 
>>> 7.3 desktop to act as the access point to talk to a laptop. At this 
>>> point I can ping it fine from the laptop and I can ping the wired 
>>> interface on the same RH 7.3 box, but I can't ping anything else in 
>>> my network. I usually have this problem when I'm building a firewall 
>>> and there's usually one thing I need to add like a default route or 
>>> something is wrong with my gateway settings. So, I'm researching on 
>>> line and in some books to see what the problem is. Any ideas?
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> At 10/20/2003 07:27 PM Monday, Jaymz Ringler wrote:
>>>
>>>> Are you trying to connect the two laptops together via wireless cards?
>>>> no access point?
>>>>
>>>> I run RedHat9 with an Dell TrueMobile (orinoco silver) card.  I have a
>>>> linksys access point connected to my lan.
>>>>
>>>> my wireless setup is such:
>>>>
>>>> adhoc mode, specified my SID,  channel is set as such for the access
>>>> point, and speed is set to auto, and my wep key is set....
>>>>
>>>> ip scheme is the same as my wired network.   Default gateway for the
>>>> wireless settings is the inside of my firewall appliance.   and of
>>>> course the same subnet.
>>>>
>>>> There really isn't anything else to do...  make sure the wireless
>>>> connection is using the correct ethernet device (eht0 or eth1).
>>>>
>>>> if you have any problems after that, maybe check iptables/chains..
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Jordan Wilberding <diginux at diginux.net>
>>>> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
>>>> Date: 20 Oct 2003 18:24:38 -0500
>>>> Subject: Re: [olug] Wireless Help
>>>
>>>
>>> Joe Catanzaro
>>> joecatanzaro at cox.net
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>
>>
>>
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> 
> 
> Joe Catanzaro
> joecatanzaro at cox.net
> 
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