Thread: Using the N800 as an WiFi Access Point
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ranasing is offline ranasing
2008-01-21 , 14:53
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Originally Posted by linux_author View Post
- in theory, yes... add a USB ethernet adapter to the n800, then use iptables to forward the packets through the wifi network interface... (you'll want to use some firewall rules as well)...

http://www.netfilter.org/projects/iptables/index.html

- you'll need a supported adapter, along with a port of iptables (netfilter), and a script...

here are a few script generators (just plug in your values and click a button, then copy and modify the resulting script):

http://easyfwgen.morizot.net/gen/
http://townx.org/simple_firewall_for...using_iptables
@linux_author: First, thank you for your post! I am not familiar with this, so I'll have to research some more. I do have a question, though. Does that mean I would have to connect the laptop through the ethernet adapter? Either I don't understand your solution, or may be I wasn't clear what I wanted to do. What I'd like to do is use the Wifi in reverse. Have my laptop, or any general purpose wireless device to connect to my N800 and then use my wireless (bluetooth) tethered cell phone to connect to the internet, and allow the device to connect to the internet via my N800. From the other posts, it appears this is not possible. Is that a hardware limitation or just that there's no software available to do this?

Thanks for the responses and any new ones in advance!