Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 11:54:23 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless Access Point Message-ID: <801797.1245.qm@web36501.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002061236360.50564@wonkity.com>
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--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Subject: Re: Wireless Access Point To: "Bill Tillman" <btillman99@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 1:45 PM On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: ... > Now my new FreeBSD-8.0-STABLE server seems to be almost ready to take ove= r for the D-Link router and my old FreeBSD server. I have two NIC's in this= server, an ethernet cable one (bge0) and the wireless NIC (ral0) or wlan0. ... =A0 > I can ping outside addresses from this new server but of course it's usin= g the 10.0.0.0/24 segment which I knew would work. But even though the wire= less clients can connect to the wirless NIC and be assigned an IP address a= nd can ping the IP address of the server, both of them, =A0I cannot access = the Internet from any of the wireless machines. I could use some advice on = what to do to correct this. Sounds like NAT is working for the internal wired interface, but not the wi= reless interface.=A0 Check your firewall rules. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA =A0 Thanks for your reply. The new FreeBSD-8.0-STABLE server is currently not r= unning a firewall. I have that taken care of with the other FreeBSD router = 10.0.0.253. =A0 In this other router I do have IPFW running and have assigned natd_interfac= e=3D"rl0". My new server is doing a make buildworld right now so I can't te= st this right away, but it sounds like I need to add natd_interface=3D"wlan= 0" in the /etc/rc.conf file. Is there a way to add this to the setup withou= t editing /etc/rc.conf and restarting the system? Otherwise I have to wait = until the make buildworld is over. This is a very fast machine so it should= n't be long.=0A=0A=0A
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