[MLB-WIRELESS] Routing help.

[Richard Van Orsouw]

> Should I have seperate subnets for wired and wireless?

Mark, definitely have both wireless and wired on separate subnets. If you
were to bridge both ethernet connections, any traffic on your Local LAN will
be propagated thru the wireless link even if not the packet is  only b/w
PC's on the local LAN increasing wireless traffic.
So separate the two. depending on how many IP's you need, you could break
your allocated /28 block down to /29 or /30 if you like.
eg, if your were allocated 10.10.32.80/28, you could allocate 10.10.32.80/29
to your local LAN giving you 6 hosts.
You could use 10.10.32.86 for the network card of the linux box, and all
your PC's connected on that LAN can use 10.10.32.81 -> 10.10.32.85.
Then you can use 10.10.32.88/29 for the wireless side, giving your network
card that's connected to your wireless gear 10.10.32.94, and any wireless
devices on the LAN 10.10.32.89 -> 10.10.32.93

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

RvO
> ----------
> From: 	vk3jma at net2000.com.au
> Sent: 	Tuesday, 11 May 2004 7:53
> To: 	melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: 	[MLB-WIRELESS] Routing help.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have managed to get 2 lan cards working in my one of my linux boxes.
> 
> Now I have eth0 and eth1, both work as I have tested them seperatly by
> making 
> each the default interfacxe and pinging out of it.
> 
> Now that I have the ability to route, I want to set things up to have the 
> wireless network on one card and my home lan on the other protecting my
> home 
> lan with a firewall.
> 
> One thing I am just not sure of is routing. I know what it does and what
> it is 
> for but getting the finer points are a bit confusing.  I am using my Melb 
> wireless alloted ip address throughout my whole lan, wired and wireless.
> 
> Should I have seperate subnets for wired and wireless?
> 
> Any assistance, pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
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