Re: How to set up wireless repeater with Network Manager 0.7?

[Jacob Beard <jbeard4 cs mcgill ca>]

Just an update, I see now that when you have two wireless NIC's, the
dialog gives you the option to select one NIC on which to create the
network. So, there's no issue there.

I currently have this setup almost working perfectly. I have the
connection shared between my two NIC's. The only problem is that DNS
masquerade does not seem to be working correctly, as I can connect to
my repeater and navigate to http://72.14.205.104/ in Mozilla, but the
same thing does not work when I attempt to navigate to
http://www.google.com. To confirm this, I edited /etc/resolv.conf and
set the contents to be the same as the resolv.conf file on my
repeater. After that, all hostnames resolved correctly on the computer
behind the repeater. This is all on Ubuntu 9.04. Could anyone tell me
what I need to do to troubleshoot this?

I'd greatly appreciate any guidance anyone can offer. Thanks,

Jake

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Jacob Beard<jbeard4 cs mcgill ca> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   I've found instructions for using Network Manager 0.7 to share an
> internet connection via the following configurations: wired ->
> wireless [0], and wireless -> wired [1]. Unfortunately, I have not
> been able to find any documentation on how to share an internet
> connection between two wireless NIC's (turning the box into a
> repeater), and, it's not obvious to me how one would set this up.
>
>   The reason for my confusion is that it does not appear as though
> Network Manager allows you to configure a wireless profile specific to
> a particular NIC. You would need to have two distinct profiles for
> each NIC: one profile/NIC to connect to a particular access point, and
> one profile/NIC to re-broadcast the connection. Network Manager
> appears to glom all wireless configurations together.
>
>   I feel I must be missing something though, because I'm sure this is
> a somewhat common use case that the creators of Network Manager would
> have forseen and implemented.
>
>   I'd greatly appreciate any guidance anyone can provide. Thanks,
>
>   Jake
>
> [0] http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2009/06/13/how-to-share-your-internet-connection/
> [1] http://www.fishpool.org/post/2009/01/15/How-to-share-a-wireless-connection-with-others-using-Ethernet-and-Fedora
>