configuring a server as a router to a wireless connection
 

I have not been successful as configuring a computer to act as a dhcp server for the lan, and at the same time a router to allow the lan computers to use the wireless connection from the server. The lan based computers get addresses, and can talk to one another, but a traceroute from those computers shows that traffic stops at the server. When I was in an area with good Internet connectivity, I had no problems with to task, but now in a rural area, with only cell phone connectivity with the phone being turned into a wireless access point and the server connecting to it, only the sever retains connectivity.

From the short description, I guess the IP Forwarding is not enabled and you could've configured the NAT wrong (iptables), or no NAT at all.

Please provide details about your setup:
- Slackware version
- output of the following commands:
There are a few HowTo's already available for a Gateway setup under Slackware:
https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:mi...uick_and_dirty
https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:ha...spberrypi3_wap
https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:ne..._slackware_box

And a recent thread dedicated on the subject:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ay-4175659159/
With a sample firewall you can use and adapt:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post6044000

Thank you so much. The only thing I had forgotten was to enable the masquerading in my iptables. everything else was fine. The computer is running Slackware14.2

Did you add something like this to your firewall?
If yes then congrats! Time to mark the thread as "Solved"!