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<P>to begin ... over 37 hours spent working out this problem ... so far no success... goal: to get a public IP address (PPPOE) on the win2k box via a win2k - cisco350 card - air- cisco350 card -linux -3com card - adsl device... </P>
<P> I have two computers... (yay) </P>
<P>1. sony viao laptop p233 Debian 2.4.18 - Cisco 350 pcmcia - and 3com pcmcia patched to ADSL device.</P>
<P>2. thinkpad - win2k - Cisco 350 pcmcia (primary workstation)</P>
<P>I want to have the win2k box able to wirelessly get on the internet with the public IP. I need to pppoe running in general to get on the big "I" via my adsl ISP... so my solution thus far is to pppoe from the linux and iptables masq 192.168 for the win2k.... yay! i have internet connectivity on the win2k but my ideal solution would be to raspppoe through the linux box so to get the public IP on the win2k... </P>
<P>when I replace the wireless adhoc(yuck) connection between the two with a wired one (swap out the cisco 350 in the linux and use another 3com and crossover into the builtin eth on the thinkpad), the BRCTL bridging stuff works.. the ff.ff.ff.ff MAC broadcast from the win2k is propagated across the bridge .. the adsl device replies with its MAC..then the win2k box sends a directed MAC packet to the adsl device ... SUCCESS!! the pppoe establishes and wa-la I have the public IP on the win2k</P>
<P>the motivation: lets just say there is a beautiful lady across the pond which I would like to netmeeting with but do not want to go through the trouble of running through a h323 gateway...tried it but its hard to get such a fair thing to work out those gatekeeper junk commands in a swiss-german localed pc :-(</P>
<P>of course the two cisco 350's are adhoc for my current setup to work wirelessly BUT not bale to get the darn public IP on the win2k box... </P>
<P>here is what I try when on the linux, I kill the pppoe session... replace the wired solution with the cisco350 pcmcia ..then brctl (bridge) the two eth's (eth0-3com eth1-cisco350) and then try to raspppoe from the win2k box... BUT when I try to do this via the ad-hoc wireless (350 to 350) connection.. its seems (from ethereal running on the linux eth1) that after the ADSL device replies with its MAC .. the win2k box will then send a packet ONLY TO the MAC of the linux cisco 350 card... (darn you cisco win2k ad-hoc mode)</P>
<P>SO THE OPEN HOSTAP CHALLENGE is for someone to work out the cisco350 hostap solution so that I can video conf with my baby overseas!!! </P>
<P>I PUT THIS CHALLEGE TO YOU!! I know you can do it.(in fact from scouring this archive... someone has kinda.... besides is must burn you that cisco's AP costs $600.. with no free solution for cisco cards....) lets make this thing happen in linux... some one has said it may require a modified airo.o or something.. whatever... just lets do this thing... and since im begging into the wind.. why not write a nice howto for it once its done... </P>
<P>you all rock hard! thanks in advance... </P>
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