[Olsr-users] Inquiry!

[John Tobias]

Aron,

Thanks for the info.

Regards,

john

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:31 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan <(spam-protected)> wrote:

> John,
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2011, at 2:38 AM, John Tobias wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have an setup like this:
>
> DeviceA - The wireless is enabled, connected it to a standard wireless
> router
> Wireless Router - Running on a standard firmware
> DeviceB - The wireless is enabled, but not connected to wireless router
>
> I would like to know if I can use the olsrd to run on DeviceA even the
> DeviceA is connected to wireless router. Then, the DeviceB can connect to
> DeviceA in order to access the outside world.
>
>
> Yes, that is possible. However, please bear in mind, that for DeviceB to
> "hop" via DeviceA to the outside world, two things must be ensured:
>
> a) DeviceA must announce a default route (HNA 0.0.0.0  0.0.0.0 in the
> olsrd.config file) (and you maybe have to NAT in case you have a different
> IP range) and
> b) DeviceA and DeviceB must be somehow connected. Now, you mentioned that
> DeviceB is not connected to the "Wireless Router" (standard firmware), but
> DeviceA is.
> You need DeviceB to talk to DeviceA on layer 2 somehow: either LAN cable or
> an extra Wi-Fi card on DeviceA (and DeviceA and DeviceB are in ad-hoc mode)
> or (for atheros cards) a virtual AP [1]
>
> I hope it helped.
>
> Aaron.
>
>
> [1] http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/MultipleInterfaces
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
>
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