Connecting Two LANS with a Wireless link

Giovanni Degani tiefoxlista at terra.com.br
Mon Nov 17 19:14:15 EST 2003


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
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>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Giovanni Degani
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