[olug] Re: Wireless Help

[Joe Catanzaro]

After further testing, it turns out I can get around my local network and 
the Internet, I just can't ping, SSH, etc. to my firewall and my firewall 
can't hit the 10.0.1.38 laptop, but it can route Internet traffic to the 
laptop without a problem. And I checked the firewall rules (even turned it 
off) for rules blocking stuff. None. I don't get it and at this point I 
don't care. I've accomplished my goal, being able to sit with the laptop in 
the living room with my 1 year old son, instead of trying to watch him in 
the computer room where he raises hell, reboots, and destroys computers.

Now, my only problem is the RH 7.3 box that is receiving all the wireless 
traffic from the laptop. It is still throwing tons of output to the console 
and to /var/log/messages  and the file's been getting huge. Does anyone 
know how to slam all this crap from the console to /dev/null ? An example 
of a message would be:

Receiving packet 07 (MGMT/Beacon): fc 0x0080, length 65 mode = 0, iStatus 4
pkt c0028410e info: time 56591957894, silence 70, signal 0

It throws about one screen full per second.

Thanks again, especially for putting up with all these posts.



At 10/25/2003 05:05 PM Saturday, you wrote:
>Dan,
>
>Thanks for the reply. Yes, I didn't have a route pointing from my 
>firewall/default gateway to the 10.0.1.0/24 subnet. Also, I ran tcpdump on 
>the firewall and the RH 7.3 box and the ICMP traffic is reaching its 
>destination, but not properly returning. I've added 2 routes on the RH 7.3 
>box. One for traffic coming from my wireless subnet, and one for traffic 
>coming from my wired subnet. I've also added a route on my firewall for 
>traffic headed toward the wireless subnet. And after all that, pings still 
>aren't hitting their targets. I've been using the following route command. 
>Am I doing something wrong?
>
>route add -net 10.0.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev wlan0
>
>And I've been trying to duplicate the table at the bottom of this 
>page.   http://www.busan.edu/~nic/networking/tcpip/ch02_05.htm
>


Joe Catanzaro
joecatanzaro at cox.net