Laptop as router

[Doooh Head]

Thanks Tony for the info, I'll do some searches to find out mroe details.  How do I get the wireless nic to activate on my laptop?  The only time I've seen it active is when my wired connection was disconnected.

John A. Bowman 



> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:19:46 -0600
> From: tonyyarusso at gmail.com
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Laptop as router
> 
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Doooh Head <doooh_head at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey All,
> >
> > I have an older (2-3 year old) Dell laptop running the latest Ubuntu.  I
> > don't have a wireless router, so even though the laptop can access wireless,
> > it isn't being used.  I have it directly connected to my wired router.
> >
> > I just recently received a new laptop from work and am now wondering if my
> > "wired" laptop could act as a wireless router for my work laptop?  Has
> > anyone done something like this, if so how and what software do I need?
> > Could/would it simply be a matter of running something whenever I need the
> > "router" ability then be able to shut it off or is it always on?
> >
> > Doooh
> 
> You can definitely do it; I'll start with that.  In terms of software,
> you'll need the basic TCP/IP stack that's installed by default, a DHCP
> server, and I think that's about it for a basic setup.  You'd need to
> configure the DHCP server to hand out leases for the IP range you
> want, and then configure routing between the two network interfaces.
> I don't know the specifics of how to do that offhand at the moment,
> but it shouldn't be terribly complicated.  And yes, you could either
> have that always on or only when desired.
> 
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