Sharing WiFi connection with a router

[vmspionage]

EDIT: I have this problem solved. Thanks for looking!





OK I'm a newbie don't be too hard on me

Here's my vision: I have a laptop with a PCMCIA WiFi connection set up already however other people in the area will not be able to connect to the network I'm on. What I want to do is share my connection with others using my connection as the host. My question is how would I go about connecting my travel wifi router (Linksys WRT54GC) to my laptop with the router accepting anonymous connections to the internet and proxying them thru. I can set up the Open WiFi in the config and connect to it fine I just need to know how to set up the network bridge in Windows XP Pro as well as how should I be setting up the rest of the network stuff on the router.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! :beer:

Jeff

 

[vmspionage]

[Internet]
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| (PCMCIA 802.11g WEP)
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My Lappy
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| (RJ45)
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Linksys WRT54GC w/WiFi
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| (802.11g Open)
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[Anyone w/WiFi]

 

[JackMDS]

What your Internet source is.

:sun:

 

[vmspionage]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
What your Internet source is.

:sun:

It's the first 802.11g connection to a closed network that cannot be open. I just want to proxy thru HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, AOL/MSN/Yahoo ports etc. when my buddies want to share.

 

[ktwebb]

Right click the wireless and wired NIC icon's and click bridge from the menu. You would not use the routing functionality of your linksys device. You'll just be using that as a switch. So no WAN port. LAN ports only. There will be no NAT or Proxy from your host connection, only the bridge. If you want to manage the users then setting up a proxy application on your machine and not bridging would be the choice. Or you could try to use the WAN port on your router. That may work just fine. We'd need more information on exactly what your setup is currently. What is the WiFi connection your referring to? You have a 802.11x ISP? Hotspot? etc... If this is the case you should understand what your suggesting, if I am reading into it correctly, is at minimum unethical, at most criminal with penalties.

 

[vmspionage]

Originally posted by: ktwebb
Right click the wireless and wired NIC icon's and click bridge from the menu. You would not use the routing functionality of your linksys device. You'll just be using that as a switch. So no WAN port. LAN ports only. There will be no NAT or Proxy from your host connection, only the bridge. If you want to manage the users then setting up a proxy application on your machine and not bridging would be the choice. Or you could try to use the WAN port on your router. That may work just fine. We'd need more information on exactly what your setup is currently. What is the WiFi connection your referring to? You have a 802.11x ISP? Hotspot? etc... If this is the case you should understand what your suggesting, if I am reading into it correctly, is at minimum unethical, at most criminal with penalties.

My connection is a 802.11g WEP encrypted WAP set up in a local business my buddy owns that I have permission to use. For obvious reasons he doesn't want to expose their internal network to everyone in the world that's why I only want to share certain ports.

OK so some clarification. I really want to get the WAN set up on the router, carrying around a bunch of cables is no fun (although I have one 6" for the connection between my laptop and the router). I suppose I'll have to use some kind of 3rd party proxy now that I think of it, but I was pretty sure that's what the bridge was for.

As far as the router the only modes it has are "gateway" and "router". I was thinking gateway was for connecting it to a cable modem or something but I'm not sure. Basically I just need the router to direct incoming traffic to my laptop then the second part is figuring out how to proxy that connection with my WiFi connection. This has been a real pita to get working.

I've already tried creating the network bridge but the thing crashes whenever I try. I don't know the exact error off the top of my head but the next time I' around I'll post it in this thread. Thanks for any help- I appreciate it. And I thought this was going to be easy

Jeff

 

[ktwebb]

Doesn't really matter what setting it is. If you don't use the WAN port and disable DHCP then it's an AP by default. You could certainly try to use the routing funcitonality by connecting to the WAN port. Allowing it to NAT the IP it gets from your friends WLAN via the bridge. I just have my doubts if that will work or not. Really depends on the existing network and what it will tolerate.

 

[vmspionage]

Thanks ktwebb and anyone else but I got this one figured out. See ya around! :beer:

--Jeff