Damn Small Linux - Not!

Winter Knight · Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 65

I have my ndiswrapper wireless connection working in DSL-n. In fact, I am using it right now.

My wireless connection is on wlan0. I also have a wired connection on eth0. Right next to my DSL-n computer, connected to DSL-n thru ethernet via hub, I have a Linux box and a Windows box.

I want my Windows and Linux boxes to be able to access the internet through my wireless connection in DSL-n. Microsoft calls this Internet Connection Sharing. Others might call this routing, or gatewaying(?) . Can someone give me a clue where to start?

I was using smoothwall for my routing needs. In fact, DSL-n is running on my smoothwall. If I take the CD out, I have smoothwall back. But getting ndiswrapper working on smoothwall would involve installing a "super-kernel", compiling ndiswrapper on another box like DSL-n, then moving it over to smoothwall, and re-running setup. Then I would have to pray. I was hoping to avoid all that by setting it up on DSL-n.

Any suggestions on "Internet Connection Sharing" with DSL-n would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Peter · Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 51

I haven't tried this myself, as I don't have a wireless card that works with ndiswrapper. or at all for that matter. or a decent network card. but it seems to be what you were looking for.
[url]http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/[/url]

Winter Knight · Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 65

Thanks Peter. I've been reading that since early this morning.

Does anyone know anything about iptables and dsl-n? Does the kernel have iptables support? Is it modularized? Will I have to compile my own kernel if I want to use IP Masquerading (Internet Connection Sharing) with dsl-n? How about with DSL? I downloaded and burned dsl-n just so I wouldn't have to compile my own kernel.

I compiled iptables-1.3.5. I ran a script I got off of tldp.org, and when it was checking modules, it found that ip_tables was not loaded. I looked for it, and confirmed that it was not loaded, nor was it anywhere as a file.

Thank you in advance.

roberts · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 320 Location: OC CA USA

You can always grab a Knoppix 3.9 CD and get other modules, programs, etc.

Winter Knight · Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 65

Thanks

I'll start downloading that tonight, as long as that is okay with my computer. I'm kind of slow and easily distracted, but when I get to copying and loading those modules, I'll report what happened here.

headly · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 5

This is probably old news now but for others that may be reading this thread. I reckon "horses for courses". I wanted to something like this with out using Windows ICS and I found Coyote Linux.

It is a tiny version of linux entirley intended as a router / firewall.
I run it from an old pentium 1 with two ethernet nic's and a floppy disk.

Thats it. No Hard disk and no CD no Keyboard and no Monitor.
(Ok a keyboard or monitor might be handy when your first configuring it.)

My headless machine hapily sits in the corner humming away. The only sound it makes is the fan. If you want to adjust anything you telnet to it.

Just a thought.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE DSL (-N)

Winter Knight · Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 65

I've heard of coyote linux. Haven't tried it yet. But as I mentioned earlier, I have used a similar distro, smoothwall. Smoothwall is much bigger, it doesn't fit on a single disk.

Coyote is not designed for wireless. There is an old project tho, coyote linux ap, some info at:
It doesn't look like it supports usb cards tho.

Thanks for the input, everyone. I might restart learning ip masquerading sometime in the future, but for now, I've dismantled my windows box in lieu of making a mame box. DSL-n is now my primary OS, and I no longer need more than one computer with Internet access.