From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MF4O6-0006kU-KU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:53:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 885E0E0512; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:53:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from india533.server4you.de (india533.server4you.de [85.25.151.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D91E0512 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:53:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.17] (pD95FD9E1.dip.t-dialin.net [217.95.217.225]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by india533.server4you.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C4C770901 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:53:26 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A3233A6.2030700@smash-net.org> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:53:26 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?Tm9ybWFuIFJpZcOf?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090430) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup References: <000606ca6620ef53cdcd6e935ccf6c4b.squirrel@jasoncarson.ca> <4A2E3C57.2060402@smash-net.org> <8d3434f676e4ca6527fde5e0c086be25.squirrel@jasoncarson.ca> <4A2EFFEE.6070803@smash-net.org> <22e332067298a86dc79f6def4e071ee3.squirrel@jasoncarson.ca> <4A2F8CEF.6070600@smash-net.org> <4A3011EA.9000908@smash-net.org> <49bf44f10906111513x4f177e37g6570a512256bee0a@mail.gmail.com> <4A319419.4000502@smash-net.org> <87prdaats6.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: f5983da5-ebaa-42b0-99ad-a104df58b763 X-Archives-Hash: a29305158444a1f100edeecfb8fc5cde Matt Causey schrieb: > > On 12 Jun 2009, at 06:46, Graham Murray wrote: > >> Norman Rie=C3=9F writes: >> >>> What do you want to do with your accesspoint. You will need a bridge >>> to a wired network if you want your ap attached to that wired >>> network. This is quite usual though... >>> Without a bridge to a wired network, only the wlan systems are >>> connected and can not connect to your wired systems. >> >> Would it not normally be better to route between the wireless and wire= d >> networks, with appropriate firewall rules in place, rather than bridgi= ng >> them? >> > That is the intent of a project I'm working on, and I think it will=20 > work well. However most folks don't need the additional complexity of=20 > multiple networks. In that case just bridging to the existing subnet=20 > is sufficient. It really depends on the users needs. I said this was quite usual=20 because with bridging produces the behaviour someone expects from an out=20 of the box accesspoint. If someone wants to control the connections or create a dmz or whatever,=20 routing would be the way, yes. In Grant's situation routing should be the better choice, as he seems to=20 want to have a router with wlan, rather than a simple accesspoint. The=20 wlan becomes the local network and the wired nic, the web. So this would=20 again produce the behavious one expects from a out of the box router. If=20 he later one create a wlan-router setup, i dare say he would bridge wlan=20 and local wired and NAT/route that to the wired web nic. But that are my views... as i said, it depends on the users needs.