Creating a wireless networking while using Nethserver as gateway

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I have a friend that was talking to me about using my Dell PowerEdge R610 as a gateway. I’m currently running VMware esxi on my server and he had told me how he has a router set to an access point and it is connected to his Nethserver gateway. I was wonder how that would be possible and if anybody knows of any tutorials online (or if anybody wants to explain through here)

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Hi @DoctorAnoniem,

IMO, you can do this in two ways:

I. On BLUE network (if you want to give wireless access to your guests)
a)

  • BLUE NIC: 10.0.0.1
  • WAN NIC of your wireless router: 10.0.0.2; GW: 10.0.0.1 (WAN NIC directly connected to BLUE NIC, as ROUTER)
  • WIRELESS LAN: 10.0.1.1/24

b)

  • BLUE NIC: 10.0.0.1
  • WIRELESS LAN: 10.0.0.2 (LAN NIC of your router directly connected to BLUE NIC, as AP)

II. On GREEN network (if you want to have access to your LAN resources)
a)

  • GREEN NIC: 192.168.1.1
  • WIRELESS LAN: 192.168.1.2 (LAN NIC of your router directly connected to GREEN NIC, as AP)

Of course, you will use the IPs according to yours settings.

(BLUE & GREEN networks are from NethServer.)

PS:

This is a very short version.
Also, you can combine I with II (wireless access to GUESTS and wireless access for LAN, completely separate).

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That seems fairly simple. Thank you for the quick reply and the more detailed instructions than what I had found before.

also, if there is any tutorials that you know of somewhat related to the subject I would gladly take any links. I just started learning how to use Nethserver.

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You are welcome!

We are here to help you to find the best way to use NethServer! At least we try! :relaxed:

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I’m in a hurry now but if the time will permit, I will try to give more detailed informations.

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Two application schemas for this subject, which may help you better.

Here are the links for NS Network and for the NS Firewall and Gateway:
The old Server Manager — NethServer 7 Final
Firewall — NethServer 7 Final

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you should save your nice work in the wiki :slight_smile:

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Hi @stephdl,

Thank you for your appreciations!

I’m not so familiar with wiki as you are.
If you think so, can you do this for the Community, please?

Kind regards,
Gabriel

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Wow looks amazing!!! We have to pin that :paperclip:

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Thank you!

You can go forward and replace the wireless routers with wireless controllers.
The limit is only the imagination, knowledge and technology. :slight_smile:
Here, in this Community, we have all of these.
We just need to put all this together. :wink:

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I have an AP on Blue (NIC).
Why DHCP doesn’t work on BLUE NIC: Range 10.0.0.0/24 it takes IP from GREEN (LAN)
Range 192.168.1.0/24.
Is there any way to do this?
Thanks in advance for your help.

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Hi @Francenildo,
Sorry for the late response!
Did you enabled DHCP on BLUE NIC?

PS
Something is wrong there.
If you are connected on BLUE NIC (10.0.0.0/24), how can the AP to get IP from GREEN NIC (192.168.1.0/24)?

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@GG_jr thank you very much for your feedback.

Yes, I enabled DHCP on BLUE NIC enp5s0, look:

dhcp-range=set:enp4s0,192.168.1.10,192.168.1.254,255.255.255.0,86400
dhcp-option=tag:enp4s0,option:router,192.168.1.1
dhcp-option=tag:enp4s0,option:tftp-server,192.168.1.1
dhcp-range=set:enp5s0,10.0.0.10,10.0.0.200,255.255.255.0,86400
dhcp-option=tag:enp5s0,option:router,10.0.0.1
dhcp-option=tag:enp5s0,option:tftp-server,10.0.0.1
dhcp-lease-max=608

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Do you have any wireless equipment(s) connected on GREEN (LAN)?
I think that the AP connected on BLUE is already wireless connected on GREEN.

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“Do you have any wireless equipment(s) connected on GREEN (LAN)?
I think that the AP connected on BLUE is already wireless connected on GREEN.”

No, I put the AP directly on the BLUE NIC.

I did another test, put a Switch directly on BLUE NIC, set the IP on a computer at 10.0.0.2 and I can’t ping 10.0.0.1.
But fixing 192.168.1.2 I can ping 192.168.1.1.

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BLUE zone cannot access GREEN zone unless the firewall allows it (with a proper rule)
Moreover… BLUE and GREEN devices should not share the same layer (ethernet-speaking).

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As I said, something is wrong there and I cannot figure out …

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Solved, thank you very much!

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I’m glad to hear that!
Can you tell what was wrong?

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I don’t know why, but my network card had stopped working. When you convinced me that something was wrong, I changed the network card and everything worked. It was functioning normally. Thank you very much!

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