[Olsr-users] Inquiry!

[John Tobias]

apologize for typo... "Aron" -> "Aaron"

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:19 PM, John Tobias <(spam-protected)> wrote:

> 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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