We want here so setup an internal wireless network that will share an internet access through a Bering firewall. We assume here that your external interface to the internet (eth0) is connected to your ISP via a standard NIC whereas your internal interface (eth1) to your network is connected through a wireless NIC.

What follows has not been tested by the author which does not have the corresponding hardware. Bob Pocius did the testing using an Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card connected to a PC through an ISA/PCMCIA adpater. Thanks to Bob for his help!

The most complete information on wireless under Linux can be found on Jean Tourrilhes web site. Jean is the developper of the wireless tools. He has also a very detailed page on Linux Orinoco drivers.

Henry Psenicka and Bob Pocius have described their use of Bering for the wireleness network of a local government in an article published in the February 2003 of the Sysadmin Journal. Check their paper available on their Wireless LEAF/Bering Project Web page.

Comments on this section should be addressed to its maintainer: Jacques Nilo <jnilo at users.sourceforge.net>.