On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 14:12:08 BST Terry Coles wrote: > One thing: I remembered that I'd been able to lay my hands on a Pi Zero for > the WMT and it's been in my spares draw ever since. So assuming that I can > cobble together enough peripherals, I should be able to set up the > configuration that you suggested.
It's taken me a while, and several iterations, but at last I've made some progress. It took me a some time to get sufficient cables and adapters to allow me to set up a system like this: Internet --- House Router ---- RPi Router --- RPi Client The LHS of RPi Router goes through the USB / Ethernet Adapter and is configured by the Pi as eth1. It obtains its address using DHCP in the House Router. The RHS of RPi Router goes through the default Ethernet port and is configured by the Pi as eth0. It has a fixed IP address. The RPI Client is connected through the default Ethernet port and is configured by the Pi as eth0. It has a fixed IP address. I then tried to set up the Router Pi using a combination of the settings from the PiMyLifeUp and the QckTech pages referenced earlier and found that I ended up with a broken DHCP server. I did this several times starting from a clean installation of Raspbian. This morning, I ignored the QckTech page completely (ie, no settings in the interfaces file) and did what I did originally, by following the PiMyLifeUp AP Tutorial at: https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-wireless-access-point/ but substituting eth1 for wlan0 and setting the IP Addresses / Ranges as above. Everything worked but I had exactly the same response as I had on Sunday wrt the route metrics. There isn't much online (that I could see) about the meaning of the metrics, but eventually it dawned on me that the user of an Access Point *wants* the route to be that way round. I simply reversed the iptables setup and I can now ping from my Client Pi to the Internet. Now I can get back to installing NodogSplash.... -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-07-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
