How would you go about setting up the routing, and would that get in the way of, for instance, if I want to ssh into my router from the internal network and opposed to going right through onto the internet. Seems there's three ways to do this from what I can find, i.) Set up a bridging device ii.) Use Iptables (but which, via SNAT or MASQUERADE) iii.) Use routing tables? What are the pro's and con's of these approaches. Cheers, Jim Mark Haney wrote: > James Allsopp wrote: >> hi, >> I'm setting up a wireless access point and I've got the laptop to >> connect to the server, and dhcp working, but I can't get the firewall to >> forward packets to the outside wall. I've seen some people setting up a >> bridging device, but before I've done it using iptables. Is one of these >> methods better, deprecated or just different? >> >> I'm using the iptables script described here; >> http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html#INCLUDERCFIREWALL >> >> the forward part is here >> $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -i $LAN_IFACE -j ACCEPT >> $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT >> $IPTABLES -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $INET_IFACE -j SNAT --to-source $INET_IP >> >> But there doesn't seem to be anything to redirect the return packets or >> to tell it which interface the outbound packets should be on. >> >> It says in the tutorial masquerade should be avoided due to the extra >> CPU, any comments? >> >> Thanks, >> Jim >> > > Honestly, I've never used IPtables for that, I've always made my server > just act like a router and input static routes between wireless and > wired networks. But then maybe my case is special, I route all my > wireless packets through my server (and squid) so that I can filter what > my kids get to on the internet. > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines