On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:15:13 -0700, Andy Willis wrote:
>Virtual switch works fine with my wired card. it doens't work with
>wireless, wireless cards can't go into promiscuous mode. For use with a
>wireless card requires using NAT. This is not ideal with my situation
>as I need to put a socks server on the windows system and connect to it
>from the host OS/2 system. I can do this fine with the wired card but I
>don't remember the registry settings to open the NAT ports so I can't do
>it with my wireless card.
Yes, I too sometimes have a server running on win - hence the use of the
virtual switch. In fact I had completely forgotten that VPC had the NAT mode -
it is so long since I set it all up.
If you can't get at your default router to fix the return path you could set it
on all the boxes on the LAN - but that would preclude you going out to the
internet - it would get out but the reply would only get back as far as the
router that would not know what to do with it. As I am using a computer as a
firewall/router I don't have the problem as I can configure it anyway I want.
Which you can't always do with a hardwired box.
For example I now have a DLink DWL-700AP for wireless connections. It *claims*
to act as a dhcp server - which it does - sort of. The problem is there is no
provision to set DNS - it always supplies its own address as the server. I
guess it is supposed to route it onwards but I can't get it to work here. Any
lookup fails. Like nslookup will say unable to contact server on <whatever the
AP address is>
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Regards
Dave Saville
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