Re: [MLUG] access gateway on one lan from a second lan
Tony Langdon
>I know it is possible to connect a box to 2 different lans but in
>this case would
>it be possible to have a box from, say, lan 2 to connect to the
>internet via a
>gatway on lan 1 through a box connected to both lans? Below is a
>diagram of what
>I'd like to do:
It is possible to do this. You need to enable routing in the kernel,
which is disabled by default. Each distro has its own way of doing
this, or you can do it outside of the distro's configuration.
On the machines on the 192.168.1.1 net (including the dlink router),
you will want to add a static route to send all traffic for
192.168.2.x via the server.
>Besides from being able to avoid a long and arduous cable run this would also
>eliminate heavy traffic on the cabled lan. I have found that there can be
>congestion when, for instance, one workstation is viewing a video
>stored on the
>server and large video files are being copied to the server from another work
>station. Video or mp3s playing across the network to the garage may
>be pushing
>the limit. Putting the garage on a second wireless network should
>eliminate any
>potential congestion problems.
That could be bottlenecks at the server, since the switch should
isolate unicast traffic on different ports, unless the switch is the
bottlenecks.
>My D-Link 502T is supposedly capable of connection to a wireless as
>well as cable
>but I do not think it will handle both at the same time and I cannot
>find any way
It will handle wireless and wired at the same time, but on the same
LAN, not separate LANs.
>to configure it to service two lans at one time. In any case all I want is a
>single wireless device to a single wireless device (kindof like a wireless
>crossover cable) I'm a bit of a luddite and would like to keep it as
>primitive
>(read simple) as possible.
You can use peer-peer connections between clients, or an access point
on one end, and a wireless client on the other.
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