On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 07:34 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
My wife and I live in a two-storey flat, and we have a small home LAN (100% CentOS 5) with a "classical" configuration:
On the ground floor, there is the telephone jack with the DSL modem router (192.168.1.254). This modem has a mini-switch with two Ethernet jacks to it, and the two are used by:
- the server (192.168.1.1), a "black box" running in a cupboard 24/7
- the wireless AP (192.168.1.253)
Then, on the first floor, everything is connected by wireless, and for the moment, configured statically:
- my desktop PC (192.168.1.2)
- my laptop (192.168.1.3)
- my wife's laptop (192.168.1.4)
I have an older laptop here, a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D, that I'd like to use as a simple build box. It's physically installed next to my desktop PC. It doesn't have a wireless card, so I vaguely thought: is it somehow possible to connect this laptop with an Ethernet cable to my desktop PC's unused Ethernet card, and then connect it to the internet? In that case, I wonder if I have to bridge the desktop PC's network interfaces (wlan0 and eth0). That said, I don't even know if the driver for wlan0 (rt61) allows any bridging. Or maybe simply configure a different subnet, but then, what would the network configuration look like on the laptop and on the desktop PC?
Any suggestions for that?
Unless you really want to spend the time learning the networking configs on CentOS, I'd suggest getting a simple Ethernet to 802.11 bridge. These are commonly called "game adaptors" here in the US.