I'm trying to connect to the Internet in a new way, with some new equipment I've now got, but I'm having some problems.

We've got a cable modem. We've got a WRT300N wireless router connected to it. It has DHCP disabled for now. We have one computer connected to the router directly. Then we have one computer connected wirelessly to it.

Then on my end, I've got a wireless bridge connected to the router. I've physically put a Linux server (still in the proccess of trying to load it), connected to it. Then I've got another card in the machine, which is connected to a wireless router via the WAN port. The wireless router is connected to a switch via the uplink port. Finally, the other computers are connected to that switch.

I disovered, that Linux should act like a router in the situation. I've got DHCP working on the router's side of the server. That address is static. The other side is static, but only for now.

I'm having some problems. from the Linux Server, I can ping all the addresses for the Internet to work. When I connect to the Server via a method to test the server's connection, I can enter the server, but I can't get through to the Internet. I cannot go through the card. I need to get through and back. Why isn't this letting me get through and back?

Forgot one question: How do I set it up, using GUI tools, if possible, and where not, using command line tools.

I'm sorry. I don't get your HW config. Looks like you mixed the actual config and the new config. I suggest to draw a pseudo grahical picture which hopefully will help.

Well, I found that the routing tables were broken, and that made it so that if I'm directly connected, I can access the Internet. But I can't be directly connected, I need the wireless router as well. So I can't get through the Linux server on the other side of the router, and I can't get through the router, on the other side of the server. I can only get to both addresses on the router or server on one side of it.

As far as the hardware configuration, here's the desired configuration:

There's only one problem with the way the text diagram came out though, that is that the text diagram isn't spaced right by the forum. You can still read it though, right?

Just wrap your drawing in the
code and /code tags (Don't forget the leading [ and trailing ] for every tag).

There, now that's fixed via editing.

Ok. That's a nice and easy to read picture

How do you do this?
How do you do this?

I used ping. And I tested the connection by rewiring the server to be connected directly to the other machine to isolate the problem.

It's mostly impüossible to help you if you don't post more details about your config and what you do...

Execute this small script on your Linux router. It's analyzing all NW settings and collecting useful NW informations. Post the contents of collectnwdata.out. This will be at least a starting point for further analysis. In addition I suggest to update the usefull graphic topology posting with the IP addresses of the boxes because the script will display IP adresses only.

I've now tried all 3 possible ways to hook up my Linux server. I now know none of them work. I've tried having the server between the wireless bridge and the router as a router, a bridge, and a client with 2 same subnet IP addresses. I've now tried 2 operating systems, which is what took me so long, I've tried Mandrake Linux Community 10.1, and SuSe Linux 9.0. None of these work. I've also tried a 4th configuration, which works, a little bit. It works until you try to set up DHCP and DNS, and e-mail.

I wish there were a way to post the word documents, I've now created, though. They are now the most accurate information about my setup.