7/5 I have a computer at home hooked up to DSL; can I do wireless
peer-to-peer sharing to other PCs in my house? That is, can I
share Net access without an access point? I think this can work
if the PC hard-wired to DSL has both a wired and wireless NIC,
and the wireless NIC provides the gateway IP.
\_ Buy the linksys dsl router - 4 port 10/100 switch, does nat. $160
\_ I think so, although I'm not sure if home DSL works the same way
as business DSL. I think you'd just install a NAT or a proxy on
your gateway computer.
\_ Yes, there will be NAT and DHCP, just like if you were
sharing out on a wired home network, but: Can you do this
for a wireless network *without an access point*? I believe
I can, but I want to know if anyone's tried this.
\_ What's an access point? Please don't delete this again.
\_ In a peer-to-peer if PC1 is out of range of PC2
it's too bad. With an access point PC1 can talk
to the access point which can talk to PC2. Access
points also typically function as a link to a
wired network.
\_ most wireless cards have a special peer-to-peer setting which
works without access point, assuming you know how to set up
routing. your dual-nic host will have to forward the packets
between the nets. see wireless card "domain" option, usually.
on linux it is a pain because this is usually an option
set at driver module load time, rather than a dynamic setting
with the pcmcia cardmgr. so you have to stop pcmcia services,
edit core pcmcia options, restart pcmcia services for any mobile
computer when you move from access point to peer wireless domains.
\_ you try this? |
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