SUSE Router/Gateway

[haasjoh]

I'm needing a little help. Although, I may be barking up the wrong tree. Our company uses static addresses. Yeah, it blows, but I had an idea for a new group of wireless users on a particular subnet. Please tell me if this idea will even work and how I might accomplish it.

1. Build a SUSE 10.2 box with two network cards
2. Create a bogus subnet on one NIC and make it DHCP and plug my Wireless Access point into it so it can get the addresses.
3. Add an IP addresses to the other NIC that is on my live network
4. The add my routing crap in YASt.

The question is HOW to do this in YAST. I'm familiar enough with SUSE thant I can do it. I just haven't done it before. Is this possible?

[kahoona]

That should work. The access point would provide the wireless computers access to the DHCP server on you Suse box. I don't think it would be a routing issue, but rather you would have to have network address translation (NAT) and IP forwarding setup. You could probably Google a tutorial to show you how to do that.

[framp]

There is nothing special. Just define both nics and enable forwarding. That's it.