Connecting Two LANS with a Wireless link

[Giovanni Degani]

Thank you again.

I tried this before with two lucent cards and ad-hoc mode, but with no
success, the test setup was a linux box with on wireless card and acting
as a gateway for others linux?s and  one windows xp, and in another end
was a IBM thinkpad running windows 2000, i managed to bridge one of the
linux gateway box bridged with the wireless card, the IBM thinkpad could
ping the other side, but the nor the internet wor netbeui was working.
but it didnt work very well, i read somewhere in the net that it was
because you cannot put a wirless card in promiscius mode and also some
mac adress problems.

Maybe something specific with the lucent card?

PS: I upload some schematichs of the setup. In this address:
http://www.linuxware.com.br/updates/network.gif

Regards
Giovanni Degani

Jeff Meden escreveu:

> If youre using the wireless link strictly as an intermediary 
> connection between the two buildings, and use layer 2 'bridge mode' on 
> either linux box, the connection between networks should be 
> transparent to protocols like NetBEUI and TCP-IP on the client 
> machines on the wired ethernet on either side.
>
> Jeff
>
> Giovanni Degani wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> Thank you by wour respose.
>>
>> My biggest concern is with the clients on the other side, behind the
>> linux box ( wired lan )
>> If i use ad-hoc mode they will be able to normally access the lan on the
>> other side ( windows shares and etc) ?
>>
>>
>> Thank you once more.
>>
>> Giovanni Degani
>>
>> Jeff Meden escreveu:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> I hava a problem, I need to connect two lans, one on each building,
>>>>
>>>> one builng in each side of the street.
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if is possible to use two linux boxes, one in each
>>>>
>>>> building, acting as a access point, and use WDS with one another. Can
>>>>
>>>> this be done with hostAP ? I need that the windows network and shares
>>>>
>>>> to be fully working between the lans.
>>>>
>>>> I also have another linux machine in one of the building, that is
>>>>
>>>> acting  as gatewat, it has a adsl connected, and does nat to the
>>>>
>>>> internal net (192.168.0.0/24) , it is possible that the other lan in
>>>>
>>>> the other building be in the same network? so the nat could deliver
>>>>
>>>> internet for the two buildings.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks ind advance
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ps: sorry for my bad english
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Giovanni Degani
>>>>
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