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Old 06-23-2004, 08:20 PM   #1
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Need help creating routing table on linux


Since I am not sure under what subject does my question goes I am posting it here. I have an old linux machine with a wireless client card. I am assigning a static IP address to the machine 10.0.1.5.

I have a subnet 10.0.0.0 with an access point having IP address 10.0.0.1. I am interested in making this access point default router for 10.0.1.5. Since its on different subnect everytime I try to issue route command, I get Network unreachable error.

Please help, what should I do??
 
Old 06-23-2004, 08:57 PM   #2
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Simple, assign 10.0.0.5 to your Linux machine, that is by far the easiest solution.

The other alternatives would be on your wireless access point to set the subnet mask to 255.255.254.0 (instead of 255.255.255.0) and do the same on your Linux box.
 
Old 06-23-2004, 09:58 PM   #3
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Thanks chort, finally I got some response which doesn't ask me to read linux manual or search for solution to similar problem online.
You are right, I can do any of those things you suggested.

In fact by default that machine was getting dynamic ip address by the DHCP running on access point. I am interested in assigning a different IP address to this machine because I am trying to create a scenario of a subnet 10.0.0.0 and some machine outside this subnet which only knows about the access point.

I know its a wierd network setup ... but I have limited hardware and I need two subnets to test working of my application.
Any suggestions ...
 
Old 06-24-2004, 03:23 AM   #4
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Quote:
Originally posted by itrap2003
Thanks chort, finally I got some response which doesn't ask me to read linux manual or search for solution to similar problem online.
You are right, I can do any of those things you suggested.

In fact by default that machine was getting dynamic ip address by the DHCP running on access point. I am interested in assigning a different IP address to this machine because I am trying to create a scenario of a subnet 10.0.0.0 and some machine outside this subnet which only knows about the access point.

I know its a wierd network setup ... but I have limited hardware and I need two subnets to test working of my application.
Any suggestions ...
maybe you need to switch access point to "bridge mode" ?
 
Old 06-25-2004, 12:54 PM   #5
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I am not able to configure bridge on the access point ... brctl command required for the configuration is not available and I dont know how can i get it installed. Also as i was skimming through the how-to manual I got a feeling that bridging only works when you have machine with 2 interfaces.

Please help me out ... is there another way for my wireless machine to talk with another subnet.
 
Old 06-25-2004, 09:18 PM   #6
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Your access point is not a router, so this is not going to work. Please familiarize yourself with IP networking to understand why your situation is unworkable. People gave you the only answers that will work and you rejected them.
 
  


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