From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 24 20:08:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D78E16A84E for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 20:08:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mta11.adelphia.net (mta11.adelphia.net [68.168.78.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 076BC43D46 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 20:08:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd@a1poweruser.com) Received: from barbish ([70.39.69.56]) by mta11.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with SMTP id <20060524200831.SPIN9009.mta11.adelphia.net@barbish>; Wed, 24 May 2006 16:08:31 -0400 From: "fbsd" To: "Mark Moellering" , Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 16:08:26 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200605241032.48356.mark@msen.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: Firewall with 3 NIC (1 wireless) problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: fbsd@a1poweruser.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 20:08:36 -0000 This may be a wild shot in the dark. Netgear WPN311 & WG311T are both CLIENT RangeMax Wireless PCI Adapter cards. Looks to me like you are missing hardware needed to make your wanted wireless network to work. On your wired LAN you cable a Nic card in your gateway box to a hub/router/switch through which all other PC's on the LAN are connected into. A wireless system works much the same way. Your gateway box should have a Nic cabled to an wireless base/router through which all other PC's on the wireless LAN broadcast/communicate with. You need a Netgear RangeMax Wireless Router WPN824 which is a stand-a-lone piece of equipment cabled to your gateway box. The Netgear WPN311 card you have in the gateway box is useless. Use it for some other PC you want on your wireless LAN. Please take note that the built in hardware wireless wep/wpa encryption security is a laugh. Any body with some free software off the internet can drive down your street and pick up your wireless base broadcast and gain access to your network and the public internet through you if you only rely on wep/wpa encryption for access security. There are many solutions out there. Review the questions list archives on wireless security for many suggestion on how to protect your wireless network. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Mark Moellering Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:33 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Firewall with 3 NIC (1 wireless) problem I am attempting to add a wireless capabilities to an existing network / firewall structure. I added a wireless NIC card to the firewall (Netgear WPN311) and followed the wireless instructions. I also added a similar card to an existing computer (Netgear WG311T). The Firewall's internal wired network is on 192.168.1.1 and the Wireless card is set to 192.168.2.1 The client computer can find the wireless network and I can ping the wireless card (192.168.2.1) However, I can get nowhere else. I cannot get to the wired subnet nor outside access to the internet. I tried adding a bridge from the wired to the wireless network interfaces but that did nothing. I tried putting the wireless Nic to 192.168.1.249 but that made things worse. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Both client and firewall are running Freebsd 6.1 Relevant (that I can think of) files from the firewall are included... Thanks in Advance. Mark