So you want to set the desktop up as a wireless router, except instead of the usual situation (wired ether = internet, wireless = clients) you want the other way around (wired = clients, wireless = internet).
So it would look like this: Random client on cat-5 -> eth0 -> DO MAGIC -> wifi0 -> tubeless internet tubes -> DD-WRT Router -> internets I *think* you can create a bridge that would join the network on the ethernet to the network on the wireless, making them appear as the same network to all clients involved in the transaction. IIRC bridge-utils is the package you want for Ubuntu. Paging James! James looked into bridging/bonding last week at the office. Alternatively a software router will let you have more control over things, but will be more fiddly as you'll have to do DHCP and NAT at the software router. I would look into bridging first and the software router second. The former is going to be more transparent and less hassle, the latter will have more options, but with more options come more hassles. Also I assume you'd have a wired router connected to the Ubuntu machine or a simple crossover cable. PS Lets not forget the $10 solution. Apartment A is "across the hall" so would 15 meters of cat-5 and some cable track take care of the problem? > I've got two apartments directly across the hall from each other. I've > got a desktop computer and a Neuros OSD in apartment B that would like > to chat to the Internet through the network in apartment A. > > Apartment A has a wrt54gl v1.1 running DD-WRT and acting as an 802.11g > access point. The desktop in apartment B has a wireless card and an > ethernet port built into the motherboard, and is (or will soon be) > running as a Hardy desktop. > > Is there an easy way of setting it up so that the desktop in apartment > B connects to the wireless signal from apartment A, and the OSD (and > whatever else in the future) in apartment B can piggy-back on that > network connection by plugging into the ethernet port on the desktop? > It seems like this should be doable, and it seems like it should be > simple. I've just never tried anything similar, so I've really no idea > where to begin, so I'd like to feed off yours... > > Ideas? > > Simón > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org -- -- Jon Bartels [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
