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Date:      Sat, 6 Feb 2010 12:46:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mark <redtick@sbcglobal.net>
To:        Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com>
Cc:        help help <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Wireless Access Point
Message-ID:  <159476.59316.qm@web81205.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002061236360.50564@wonkity.com>

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--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:

> From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
> Subject: Re: Wireless Access Point
> To: "Bill Tillman" <btillman99@yahoo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 1:45 PM
> On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman
> wrote:
> ...
> > Now my new FreeBSD-8.0-STABLE server seems to be
> almost ready to take over for the D-Link router and my old
> FreeBSD server. I have two NIC's in this server, an ethernet
> cable one (bge0) and the wireless NIC (ral0) or wlan0.
> ... =A0
> > I can ping outside addresses from this new server but
> of course it's using the 10.0.0.0/24 segment which I knew
> would work. But even though the wireless clients can connect
> to the wirless NIC and be assigned an IP address and can
> ping the IP address of the server, both of them, =A0I cannot
> access the Internet from any of the wireless machines. I
> could use some advice on what to do to correct this.
>=20
> Sounds like NAT is working for the internal wired
> interface, but not the wireless interface.=A0 Check your
> firewall rules.
>=20
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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rg"

In rc.conf you need gateway_enabe=3D"YES". After making the entry you can d=
o /etc/netstart to keep from rebooting.

Are you running a dhcp server, that is pushing the gateway IP and dns serve=
r ip's out to the wireless network or just hand config??

 



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