On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:43:11 -0500 "Sandeep Khanna" <sandeep.khanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > After hours of reading and trials, I got the following setup working... > > 1. Dell Axim X30 PocketPC with 802.11b wireless using DHCP with Open WEP > > -- successfully connected to --> > > 2. Laptop with DLink Airplus DWL-650+ PCMCIA wireless with ndiswrapper > v1.1 driver with network bridge (wired + wireless) and running a DHCP > server listening on interface br0 (eth0 + wlan0) > > Here is the situation: > - The Dell Axim X30 PDA shows connected to the laptop in Ad-Hoc wireless > mode. > - It successfully gets an MAC address based IP address from the DHCP > server running on the laptop. > - I can successfully ping the PDA (10.3.2.209) from the > laptop(10.3.2.175). > - I can successfully ping the laptop(10.3.2.175) from the > PDA(10.3.2.209). > - When I open a browser on the PDA and try to open www.dell.com, tcpdump > shows the following: > > 16:26:09.XXXXXX arp who-has 10.47.12.29 tell 10.3.2.209 > 16:26:10.XXXXXX arp who-has 10.47.12.27 tell 10.3.2.209 > > The above shows: > time | protocol | who-has | Nameserver | tell | source IP address (PDA) > > - Internet browsing using the above Nameservers(10.47.12.29, > 10.47.12.27) works on the laptop but apparently the PDA doesn't seem to > even know about the Nameservers(10.47.12.29, 10.47.12.27)!! > > Going forward, if the above the setup works then, I would be able to > browse Internet, use ActiveSync and more on my PDA not only in office > (laptop eth0 active) but also at home (laptop wlan0 active). Since you only really want to handle one device and a limited range of protocols you probably would have better success with routing and/or socks. The problem is that most wireless interfaces don't allow source address spoofing.
