On Tuesday, 27 April 2004, at 09:13:58 -0500, Nelson E. Castillo wrote: > Internet (gateway) > | > | > | > eth0 = real IP > ----------------- > L I N U X ROUTER > ----------------- > eth1 = private IP > | > | > | > eth0 = real IP > ----------------- > Wireless Access Point > ----------------- > > I was asked to put a real ip (not to do static > NAT) in the Ethernet interface of the WAP. How can > I do it? > I suppose the real IP you have to assing to your WAP ethernet interface is in the same range as the real IP address assigned to the external interface of your Linux router. I think you can set up a proxy ARP entry on this Linux router for the real IP to put on your WAP. The external interface in the Linux router will reply to ARP requests with its own MAC address, and will receive the incoming traffic. Then you must have adequate routing entries to direct traffic going to the "internal" real IP address through the internal (private) interface in the Linux router, and hopefully it will arrive at the WAP. The best way to avoid missing something in the process of configuring everything is to take a paper and a pen, and draw the path of the IP packets through your network. Do everything as the operating system would do, and do what is needed to make packets arrive at the correct place in your network. Greetings. -- Jose Luis Domingo Lopez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Sid (Linux 2.6.5) _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
