Hello all, In the days before ubiquitous wifi cards, I was able to "tether" a friend's laptop without a wifi card to my laptop via a crossover ethernet cable. My laptop had DHCPd running on the wired interface and was NAT'ed to route via the wifi interface. This allowed my friend to access the Internet via my laptop. The setup was something like this:
[friend] --- [me] -))) (((- Internet where "---" represents the Ethernet cable and "-))) (((-" represents the wifi connection. In fact, I was able to do this for a few friends at the same time if I brough along a switch/hub and had access to external power. I would now like to do something similar, but somewhat in reverse: [friend] -))) (((- [me] --- Internet Specifically, my friend's laptop would connect to mine via wifi, and my laptop would NAT/route traffic via the wired interface out to the Internet. I would imagine that I would somehow need to do the following: 1) create an ESSID 2) enable it to be broadcast 3) enable DHCPd on the wifi interface 4) enble NAT routing between the wifi and the wired interface. I'm getting stuck at the first two steps. This would seem as though I am turning my laptop into a "hotspot". However, using that search term hasn't brought me any joy. Every hit I've found refers to using a wifi router (e.g. the WRT54G) and then all kinds of fancy authentication schemes. Am still Googling and browsing, but any pointers to the more correct search terms would be helpful. Thanks in advance. Regards, - Robert -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
