Internet sharing problems over Ad-hoc Wireless network

Dman_15

This is a pretty complex one so please bear with me. Firs of all i will explain the current network in our house.

Basically we have a unix box that serves as a router/firewall/server for 5 pc's in the house over cat5 and a hub.

My PC lan settings are:

IP: 192.168.123.8
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.123.1 <

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Unix box ip

DNS: 62.241.162.xxx
DNS2: 62.241.163.xxx

I have a USB wireless adapter connected to this pc with the following settings:

IP: 192.168.0.1
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: ???????????? dont know

DNS: ???????????? dont know
DNS2: ???????????? dont know

I also have checked the 'allow other users to connect through this computers internet connection'


Then theres my laptop with integrated wireless.

Its settings are:

IP: 192.168.0.2
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: ???????????? dont know

DNS: ???????????? dont know
DNS2: ???????????? dont know



The wireless connection between the PC and laptop works(ad-hoc), in that i can ping one from the other, however i cant see anything in the LAN beyond the PC from the laptop, nor can i connect to the internet.
I also want to be able to get to the unix server and other peoples sharde folders on the LAN from the laptop.

Anyone have any ideas as to what i should be setting the DNS on the wireless cards to? or if its even possible.

If i didn't explain clearly let me know.

Thanks in a advance

Dman_15

WEP is disabled.

Ive also tried automatically detect ip's on both wireless'. I get the same results, i can see the pc but nothing beyond.

I've also tried cheching the 'share internet' box on the network card of the pc instead of on the usb wireless adapter

NutJob

Can u post ur DHCP server conf file

and ur iptables firewall settings file ?

and we will see what we can do ?

Dman_15

I managed to get it sorted.

I bridged the wireless and the nic, but that didn't work at all.
Then i came accross a force compatibility mode using the command: 'netsh bridge set a 1 e' where 1 is the number of the wireless adapter from 'netsh bridge show'.

Never heard of that command before but it worked

irlrobins

oooh interesting. Good find there. Never seen that myself but must remember it for future reference. Not that you get many ad hoc wireless internet sharing connections around here.:p

Found an article detailing it.

NutJob

I did this with xp before but found the latentacy spiked when the machine running the bridge was under any kind of load.

not a problem unless ur gameing

Sorry i thought you were doing this in linux.

One thing to note is firewalls like zonealarm can block this so keep an eye on it

bushy...

Maybe if you stuck a wifi card in the linux box (since it probably on all the time anyway) , to act as an AP it would be better , and it would save you buying an access point ?