LARTC - Apr 2001 - routing roaming computers with wireless ethernet cards

hello;

question: how should routing be handled for
computers with wireless ethernet connections?

example: computer ''a'' roams into local wireless
cell covered by access point ''linux-ap''. computer
''a'' may or may not have a valid public ip address.
how should routing be handled for computer ''a''?

yet another example:
roadkill cafe has wireless ethernet access.
customers come in for coffee and want to
surf the web using their wireless ethernet.
the customers may or not not have a valid
public ip address. how should routing of
these roaming computers be handled.

is this beyond iproute2 and getting into gated
area?

-- 
Terry L. Ridder
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"We do not bend metal, we sculpt it."

digging deep, i feel my conscience burn
i need to know who and what i am
this hunger jolts me from complacency
rocks me, makes me meet myself
----kendall payne---closer to myself---

> question: how should routing be handled for
> computers with wireless ethernet connections?
well thats easy, mostly. have your wireless hub attached to a new nic, and
have that interface be assigning dhcp to all your roaming clients. then
route the traffic over that interface the exact same way you would route
any other interface. apple''s airports provide dhcp and NAT all on their
own -- im not sure if any of the other ones do that.

have fun,
alex
(wireless on a powerbook g4)

hello;

yes it would be easy with an airport or a residential
gateway from lucent/orinoco/agere but this is a linux
box with orinoco cards in ad-hoc mode. there is/are no
wireless card/cards in ''access point'' mode.

also while i could bring up dhcpd i would rather not.
nat is not a problem.

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, alex avriette wrote:

terrylr> question: how should routing be handled for
terrylr> computers with wireless ethernet connections?

alex> 
alex> well thats easy, mostly. have your wireless hub attached to a new nic,
and
alex> have that interface be assigning dhcp to all your roaming clients. then
alex> route the traffic over that interface the exact same way you would
route
alex> any other interface. apple''s airports provide dhcp and NAT all
on their
alex> own -- im not sure if any of the other ones do that.
alex> 
alex> have fun,
alex> alex
alex> (wireless on a powerbook g4)
alex> 

-- 
Terry L. Ridder

digging deep, i feel my conscience burn
i need to know who and what i am
this hunger jolts me from complacency
rocks me, makes me meet myself
----kendall payne---closer to myself---