Connecting Two LANS with a Wireless link

[Jeff Meden]

While it may work, by bridging each wireless adapter on either end and
forcing them to communicate by WDS, it is not the simplest way to do
it.  WDS is designed to allow an access point to communicate with both
clients and other access points.  If you do not need to support clients,
it would work better with a simple Ad-Hoc network, or at most an AP to
Client setup, which would be overkill since with one client you do not
take advantage of any features found in AP mode.  Hope this helps!

Jeff

Giovanni Degani wrote:

>Hi! This is my first post on this list.
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>I hava a problem, I need to connect two lans, one on each building,
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>one builng in each side of the street.
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>I was wondering if is possible to use two linux boxes, one in each
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>building, acting as a access point, and use WDS with one another. Can
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>this be done with hostAP ? I need that the windows network and shares
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>to be fully working between the lans.
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>I also have another linux machine in one of the building, that is
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>acting  as gatewat, it has a adsl connected, and does nat to the
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>internal net (192.168.0.0/24) , it is possible that the other lan in
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>the other building be in the same network? so the nat could deliver
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>internet for the two buildings.
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>Thanks ind advance
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>ps: sorry for my bad english
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>Regards
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>Giovanni Degani
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