<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">John,<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 13, 2011, at 2:38 AM, John Tobias wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hello,<br><br>I have an setup like this:<br><br>DeviceA - The wireless is enabled, connected it to a standard wireless router<br>Wireless Router - Running on a standard firmware<br>DeviceB - The wireless is enabled, but not connected to wireless router<br>
<br>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.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div>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:</div><div><br></div><div>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 </div><div>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.</div><div>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]</div><div><br></div><div>I hope it helped.</div><div><br></div><div>Aaron.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/MultipleInterfaces">http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/MultipleInterfaces</a></div><div><br></div><div> <br><blockquote type="cite">Regards,<br><br>John<br>
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