Hi All,

I have a problem that I'm working with on a home brew router.

The machine is an 800MHz Duron PC with 512MB of RAM. I have a Realtek 8139 and a Tulip NIC installed and I have inserted a DLink DWL-G122 USB Wireless NIC into one of the USB socket. I've installed NDIS-Wrapper and the D-Link driver and gone through the commands but I can't get the machine to forward packets from the wireless NIC to the internal network or the internet. OS is Mandrake 10.1

The hardware is as follows:

eth0 - Local subnet - 192.168.3.0/255.255.255.0
eth1 - Internet via D-Link ADSL modem (DHCP IP Address)
wlan0 - Wireless subnet - 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0

the routing table appears as follows:

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.3.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
0.0.0.0 212.159.xxx.xxx 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1

(my xxx's replace the real numbers)

and I have configured shorewall to allow packets to go backward and forward between the LAN and the wireless. The LAN to Internet connection works fine so IP forwarding is on but I don't want to bridge the wireless to the LAN (with brctl) for various reasons.

Is there any reason why this shouldn't work? Both the wireless cards (router and Laptop light up and the dat lights flash when I ping AND.. the laptop detects the wireless LAN displaying the ESSID but I can't ping across the NICS. Is bridging essential or can I use clever routing to pull it off?

Cheers,

Joolz

Is the wireless a recent addition?

What is the ping command you tried? and did it give any errors?

Is the Local subnet - 192.168.3.0 using DHCP?
How is the wireless subnet assigned its IP addresses?
Take a look at on both the router & the laptop.
You will have to hard code the IP address for at least the router end of the wireless subnet.

If the wireless subnet has not had its IP addresses assigned correctly, your ping packets could be getting to the router but not back.

If you want to trace packets, you might try tcpdump -i <interface>, tethereal, or ethereal.

Hiya,

The internal interface, 192.168.3.1 is a static IP and is connected to an 8 port switch that leads off to the rest of the LAN. The internet interface is dynamic and is allocated by the ISP via my D-link ADSL modem and I have a staic IP on the wireless NIC of 192.168.32.1. The wireless NIC in the laptop is static on 192.168.3.2. Default gateway has been set to 192.168.3.1 and 192.168.2.1 (out of desperation ) with no luck. BTW All have netmasks of 255.255.255.0.

If I ping a LAN address from the wireless I get destination host unreachable and the same goes for wireless to internet. Traceroute returns !H which according to the man page means "Host unreachable. The router has no route to the target system".

It seems like the NICs are alive but even with the firewalls on both set to allow open traffic from them, they don't see each other.

It's around 2 am here so I'll do some more research and post the output from commands later today.

Cheers,

Joolz

I hope these are just typo's:Note: let C=192.168

Your regular, wired, perhaps original, LAN is: C.3.0
Your wireless, perhaps new, LAN is: C.2.0

Then the wireless NIC in your router must be : C.2.1
and the wireless NIC in your laptop must be : C.2.2