[lwlan-user] How can set bridge between wlan0 and eth0?

[karllinuxtest.relton at ntlworld.com]

> Hi, All
>  I have successfully set my WPC11 PCMCIA card working as an AP now. Thanks 
> for Pavel's help.
>  But now I find that there are no communication between wlan0 and eth0. I 
> hope my AP can be a relay station that can send terminals' requests to 
> Internet by ethernet interface and receive responses from there. 
>  I found someone said he had modified /etc/network/interfaces in Debian and 
> made a helpful bridge. But I can not find such a file under my Red Hat FC4. 
> How can I build such a bridge in my machine?
>  Thank you for any hint! 
> 

The functionality you describe doesn't really have
anything to do with the device drivers for wlan0 or eth0, but is in the kernel networking subsystem.

Essentially you want your PC to act as a router - perfectly
possible in Linux.

It may be simply a case of enabling 'IP forwarding' -
typically distros turn this off by default as a conservative
precaution.

In a debian based distro, it would be one line in a file such as /etc/networking/options. I'm sure FC has a similar
config file - but not sure where. An FC forum or user group
would be a better place to ask.

Note I think for other machines on your wireless segment
you would need to set them so that they see your 'bridge PC'
as their default gateway (so set gateway IP address on
those machines to the IP address of your bridge PC).

Karl

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