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Configuring a Wireless Access Point
Work in Progress
This Howto explains how you can share your internet-connection via the wireless NIC of your computer (Wlan Access Point).
Requirements
The package hostapd is available at slackbuilds.org. It provides a daemon who listens on the wireless interface and allows the clients to authenticate.
Configuring hostapd
Configuring the client
In this Howto I'll only describe a minimal setup with a static IP-configuration.
IP_forwarding and routing
Enable IP forwarding
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding
Internet Connection Sharing
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
In this case eth0 is the interface which is connected to the internet. If your computer has a connection via ppp you shouls use ppp0 instead of eth0.
Sources
