Heres a Problem for all you networking Gurus out there, im having some trouble with it?

Question

Ok, so basically i have a laptop in my room at school with a wireless card on it (its mac address has been whitelisted by the central server all legit) and i have a few other computers in my room, now i don't want to use ICS with windows and a crossover cable or anything because i have multiple things i want to have internet access, so what i'm trying to do is patch the internet from my laptop (the whitelisted one) through a WRT54G wireless router, and redistribute it through my wireless devices, so basically im trying to connect two seporate networks together, and use my laptop as a gateway between them, i have been working and tinkering for a bit, and im still working on it, but if you guys have any insight it would be greatly appriciated


Internet--------School Server---------Router in the dorm-------My laptop--------Router in my room------my other wireless devices

Kinda a bad network map, but thats the basic jist of what im trying to do, and of course im using windows xp :)

EDIT: I dont have an eithernet jack in my room, so i cant just 'plug it in' i wouldve done that already :) I got some good suggestions, i donno, is there any way that a wireless router can connect to another wireless router? Thats all i really need to do...thanks for all the help!

More details, all that i want to accomplish is routing a bunch of data through a single mac address, i will keep looking, but i cant really find much beyond my origional plan to just have two seporate networks connected through one laptop (the one with the whitelisted mac)

Answer 1

The way you've configured things requires the laptop to be on all the time and routing packets from the other devices. Your best solution would let each of your devices remain independent of each other as much as possible. You could use MAC address emulation on the router's outside (WAN) port, but it may conflict at some point with the MAC address of the laptop. Any possibility you could get the network system administrators to put the WRT54G's MAC address in their whitelist? With that you could use the router as intended and make use of its full capabilites. I'm guessing that campus policies preclude that though, or you wouldn't be asking.

For the specific procedure, check the manual or online help instructions for the router to see how to change the MAC address of the WAN port.

If you go the MAC address spoofing method, consider whether there is third party firmware load that will enable additional features that will help you. The Wikipedia page noted below has a list of links to replacement software based on the version of your router. Good luck.

Answer 2

My first question is: why not just whitelist your routers MAC then let it do what it was designed to do?

But since I assume you have a bad reason but a reason none the less for that. the setup ICS on the laptop and then connect the laptop to the router using ethernet. you would have to create a bridge between the laptops Local area connection and is wireless connection. then whatever connects to the laptops wireless will get connection through the wireless.

If you want to do it backwards then you would need more equipment. if you want to set it up so that the Local network is both wired and wireless. then you would need and additional switch or have capabilty to setup a VLAN on your router. but if you choose that route you would be better off to Read a book cause I would be here for days typing out directions.

Answer 3

There is a very easy way to solve this problem without using your laptop to provide access to the internet.

The WRT54G you have supports MAC Address cloning. You can enter the MAC address that you have registered with the school into the router and it will use that for "pretending" to be your laptop when talking to the schools router.

1) Login into the routers web interface (usually http://192.168.1.1)

2) Select the setup tab and then the MAC Address Clone subtab.

3) Click the enable button enter your MAC address. (If you are doing the config from your laptops ethernet adapter you can hit the clone button).

4) Click save settings.

Your new network configuration will look like this:
Internet--------School Server---------Router in the dorm------Router in your room------Laptop and my other wireless devices

Your laptop can now be used wired or wireless.

Good luck!

Kevan

Answer 4

First thing you need to do is find out your school domain name. This you can get with your school network administrator. Make sure you ask for permission, because there is a lot of networks in your school that it's probabaly off limits.

Secondly, I am assuming it has some type of security, so get the wireless card security key also. So you can type that in and join your school network wirelessly. This option seems to be the most viable from what you described.

Alternatively, if you dorm has a network drop you can just plug a a regular network cable to connect to your school network via your laptop RJ45 (Ethernet) port. But either way you choose wired or wirelessly you still need to "join" your school network . Again you will need to know their network name/ and permission to do so.

Then you need to go to the control panel/ system/ computer name and click change if you want to join a specific domain. You will be asked to reboot, which you must do before you will be "in" the domain. Remember you might need to ask you school network admin for that domain name, since I take it the school IT department is very organized and has segmented their domains amognst various school departments, I hope.

Finally, I am not sure which other devices you have since you did not mentioned them, but if you are want them to have acess to the school network the process would be similar to what was described above. otherwise they will connect to your computer but not necessarily the network.

Answer 5

(This is assumin ur Control Panel is in categorized view and not classic) Go to Control Panel --> Network connections --> View Connections (or something similar, I'm on a Mac right now but I prefer windows) --> Select both of the network adapters at the same time using shift or dragging the mouse --> Right click --> Create Network Bridge. You will probably have to get your ethernet card whitelisted as well because what this does is turns your wireless card into a WAP and puts a wireless adapter on your ethernet card to patch it through to the network aand then hook ur etherrnet card up to your router and then ur router up to ur other wirless devices.

Answer 6

Make a note of your PC's MAC address. Hook the WAN port of the router directly to the network jack in your room. Hook the PC to one of the LAN ports of the router. Go into the router's configuration and look for MAC Spoofing or MAC Cloning. Type in the MAC address of your PC. Then configure the WAN port for DHCP (or type in your assigned static IP) and configure the LAN side to a subnet other than the one your network segment uses and enable the DHCP server on the router.

The school's system sees the whitelisted MAC address, and you redistribute your connection to all of your devices.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

ICS/RRAS=Bad news.

Use the MAC Address of your router as your 'published' hardware address that is whitelisted.

Answer 9

try using linux router distro to create a router with a wireless card can be a option. The distro is very helpfull and comes with a lot of documentation

I no is what you ask but if you have the spare computer with wireless nic you should give it a try..