NAT forwarding

kermitthefrog91 · 08-04-2005, 02:49 AM

Hey

I have two computeres here in my room, but only one wireless card

We have a wireless network and the base station is downstairs and handles the internet. I want get the computer here in my room wihtout a wireless card to connect to the whole network..... Can i do it with NAT forwarding in iptables?

on the box with both connections
wlan0
inet 192.168.1.3

eth0
inet 192.168.0.2

on the other one
eth0
inet 192.168.0.1

ive got a crossover cable running between them...

is this possible to do?
how do i do it?

thanks

roopunix · 08-04-2005, 03:04 AM

do nat on the box with both connection

#/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.1 -o wlan0 -j MASQUERADE
#service iptables save

then give the gateway 192.168.0.2 in the other box.

DNS address remains the same.

then do ip forwarding
#cd /etc
#vi sysctl.conf
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
make it to 1 and save and exit
then
#/sbin/sysctl -p

TigerOC · 08-04-2005, 03:10 AM

Install and setup ip-masquerading on the box with the wireless lan connection and then tell the cabled box to use the wireless box as the gateway. Some more info on iptables configuration here .

kermitthefrog91 · 08-04-2005, 03:12 AM

worked great thanks

Nathanael · 08-04-2005, 03:26 AM

you could do bridging... that means that both your wlan0 and your eth0 devices are 'bridged' to br0, br0 gets the ip address assigne, and you set ip frowarding ('echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward')
then your 2nd (not wireless enabled) computer gets the ip address assigend from your accesspoint, or other router, and your first pc acts like a switch (in this case like a wireless accesspoint).
you can still use iptables to secure the entire setup.