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Re: Help needed building a personal gateway

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On 11/20/2014 3:30 AM, Mark Casazza wrote:
> [...]
> ClearOS managed to recognize all my network adapters:
> * Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E (Built in wired)
> * Qualcomm Atheros AR242x/AR542x (Built in Wireless)
> * Ralink RT2501/RT2573 (USB Wireless)

Cool!  You lucked-out bigtime!  :-)

> [...]
> But the ClearOS network configuration tools do not allow
> me to configure a wireless adapter as the "External
> Connection"  The last time I explored configuring routing
> tables I was working in SCO Unix and I have long since
> forget everything I knew about command line tools and
> configuration files.  If you can point me in the right
> direction I'm sure I can get this going but I can't promise
> I won't ask some novice follow up questions.  If ClearOS
> is not a good choice, I would prefer CentOS as I use that
> as my Web Host OS and I am very comfortable with it.

Two things:

1. Though it appears you're located in Pennsylvania, the
   ba.internet (San Francisco Bay Area (aka Silicon Valley)
   group has a ton of WiFi experts on configuration and
   hardware.  I don't do much with WiFi since all my boxes
   are on a gigabit LAN.

2. I never heard of ClearOS before, so I checked here:

   http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=clearos

   " ClearOS Enterprise is a server, network, and gateway platform
   " designed for small businesses and distributed enterprise
   " environments. ClearOS Enterprise is based upon ClearOS Core
   " which is a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

   And CentOS is a white-box unbranded RHEL so you "should" be
   right at home using either ClearOS or CentOS.

Though I snipped it already (at the beginning of your article) I
noticed this:

    " I would strongly prefer the DHCP server to remember clients
    " and reassign then the same IP time after time.

That's trivial in the dhcpd.conf file.  All my LAN computers have
fixed static addresses but I often boot Live CD and Lice DVD distros
and I prefer the physical hardware acquiring the same IP.  Here are
a few example template entries from my dhcpd.conf noting a system's
MAC address is the "hardware ethernet" address:

   host ubuntu {
     hardware ethernet 00:06:5B:D5:0D:25;
     fixed-address 172.20.20.56;
   }

   # cygnus' GiGE PCIe card
   host cygnus {
     hardware ethernet 00:1B:21:B0:70:B2;
     fixed-address 172.20.20.59;
   }
   [...]
   host lanserv2 {
     hardware ethernet 00:50:43:01:D0:8A;
     fixed-address 172.20.20.81;
   }

Thad

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Help needed building a personal gateway Mark Casazza <markcasazza@gmail.com> - 2014-11-20 03:30 -0800
  Re: Help needed building a personal gateway Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2014-11-20 14:23 +0200
  Re: Help needed building a personal gateway Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> - 2014-11-20 04:55 -0800
    Re: Help needed building a personal gateway Frank Stutzman <stutzman@cat2.kjsl.com> - 2014-11-20 13:20 +0000
      Re: Help needed building a personal gateway Gordon <Gordon@clear.net.nz> - 2014-11-23 04:19 +0000

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