Hi Lonnie There is no dnsmasq on the box, so I guess at least not easy.
With my old router (instead of the astlinux box) I could simply add a static route to the router and everything worked. Apparently, it also modified its firewall settings automatically. Anyway, do you see another alternative? Thanks Michael Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: > Michael, > > Thanks for the great diagram. > > It looks to me, that if your wpa_supplicant box (small linux box: > wlan0/eth0) NAT'ed the eth0 subnet to wlan0 then the AstLinux box would > only see 172.17.1.0/25 packets on the br1 interface, and all would be > good. > > Is that doable? > > Some would argue that multiple subnets on the same segment is not good > design. > > Lonnie > > > On Jul 14, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Michael wrote: > >> Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: >> >>> Michael, >>> >>> Could you provide some sort of diagram of your network configuration? >>> >>> What interfaces have what networks attached? >>> >> See attached diagram. I hope it is usable. >> >> The main point is that I have a computer in another room without a LAN >> cable. But I have a small linux box there that is connected to the >> astlinux router via WLAN. >> >> I connected the LAN connecter with the computer and configured a small >> subnet here. It would have been easier to simply bridge WLAN0 and ETH0, >> but then wpa_supplicant does not work. >> >> So the computer gets a static IP in the subnet. Its gateway is the linux >> computer. This one forwards all packages to the astlinux router. >> >> This works, but the firewall on the astlinux router blocks all outgoing >> traffic from the subnet because it only knows its local LANs. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
