[DHCP] RE: Determining request

Tim Gavin livewire98801 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 23:19:34 UTC 2010


as an aside, your Fedora box can do DNS (bind) WINS (samba) DHCP and
routing.  Or, you can get a little Cisco used for pretty cheap to do
the routing.



On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 15:15, James Dinkel <jdinkel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>   It will require some reconfiguring of either another subnet and packet
>> forwarding, or configuring VLANs on the main switch the APs are on, or do
>> some type of song and dance with WINS.
>
> It's not an either/or for those options.  You have to do all of those.  The
> VLANS will be on separate subnets and WINS is what will make Network
> Neighbor continue working as-is ( at least that is what another person said
> WINS will do ).
>
> So the steps are:
>
> 1) set up vlans on your switch, for instance VLAN 101 and VLAN 102.  Put the
> ports connected to your APs in VLAN 102 and the ports for your  wired
> computers in VLAN 101.
>
> 2) You do have two options for connection the vlans to your Fedora router:
>
> 2A) put a second nic in the Fedora box and put the port for one nic in VLAN
> 101 and the port for the other nic in VLAN 102.  Configure iptables to allow
> routing between the two nics.
>
> 2B) use a single nic.  Configure the port on the switch as a vlan trunk
> port.  Configure the nic in Fedora as a vlan trunk for and set up a virtual
> interface for VLAN 101 and a virtual interface for VLAN 102.  This is a
> little more complicated because you have to learn how to configure vlan
> trunking in Fedora, but it's really pretty easy.  This is they way I would
> do it because it's more flexible.  Configure iptables to allow routing
> between the two virtual interfaces.
>
> 3)  Set up WINS on one of your servers.  I would use a SAMBA server.
>
> This is really a very standard set up and you'll learn things that you'll
> really need to eventually learn anyway as your network grows.
>
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