hello; i may have found part of the problem. each interface in the laptop router has an unique ip address. i.e. eth0 == x.y.z.202 eth1 == x.y.z.208 eth2 == x.y.z.209 eth3 == x.y.z.210 in rereading the linux wireless howto the example router has the same ip address on all interface. i.e. eth0 == x.y.z.202 netmask 255.255.255.255 eth1 == x.y.z.202 netmask 255.255.255.255 eth2 == x.y.z.202 netmask 255.255.255.255 eth3 == x.y.z.202 netmask 255.255.255.255 with a default route on eth2. i would assume that eth0, eth1, and eth3 are all proxy-arped. On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, terrylr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: terrylr> hello; terrylr> terrylr> here is the problem. terrylr> terrylr> i have a laptop running linux-2.4.3 with three wireless terrylr> ethernet cards installed and an actual ethernet card terrylr> acting as a router. terrylr> terrylr> eth0 connects to the wired ethernet in my home. terrylr> terrylr> eth1 connects to the first orinoco card which is terrylr> the local wireless cell this is in home use. terrylr> terrylr> eth2 connects to the second orinoco card which has terrylr> and 24dbi gain parabolic directional antennea and terrylr> will eventually be a 512mbs connection to the internet. terrylr> terrylr> eth3 connects to the third orinoco card which has terrylr> an external antennea so i am able to sit outside and terrylr> work on the computers. terrylr> terrylr> any computers on the wired ethernet are able to ping terrylr> the laptop router but are unable to ping any wireless terrylr> computer. terrylr> terrylr> any computer on the local in home wireless are able terrylr> to ping the laptop router but are unable to ping terrylr> any computer on the wired ethernet. terrylr> terrylr> any computer on the wireless networks with external terrylr> antennea is able to ping any other wireless computers terrylr> and the laptop router but unable to ping the wired terrylr> ethernet computers. terrylr> terrylr> the ip numbers are valid internet numbers. it is terrylr> my legacy class c ip range. there are no subnets. terrylr> terrylr> all wireless cards are in ad-hoc mode with 128bit terrylr> encryption enabled. terrylr> terrylr> i am trying to route any wireless computer to the terrylr> wired ethernet. terrylr> terrylr> i am trying to route the wired ethernet to eth2 terrylr> as internet default gateway. terrylr> terrylr> what am i missing? terrylr> terrylr> -- Terry L. Ridder Blue Danube Software (Blaue Donau Software) "We do not write software, we compose it." digging deep, i feel my conscience burn i need to know who and what i am this hunger jolts me from complacency rocks me, makes me meet myself ----kendall payne---closer to myself---
