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I have a linux box and has ethernet, wlan STA/client and wlan Access Point. It's a internet connection via ethernet and I can log in to the box via ssh. But I wish to use the box like a wireless router and be able to connect to internet by using for example a smart phone. I can connect my phone to wifi but it has no internet access.

Here are my interfaces:

eth0 is Ethernet
eth1 and eth2 is WLAN 

# ifconfig
br0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:BC:22:17:20
          inet addr:10.10.1.116  Bcast:10.10.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::215:bcff:fe22:1720/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6377 errors:0 dropped:608 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:615 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:865911 (845.6 KiB)  TX bytes:59751 (58.3 KiB)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:BC:22:17:20
          inet6 addr: fe80::215:bcff:fe22:1720/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6417 errors:0 dropped:6 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:623 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:985364 (962.2 KiB)  TX bytes:60399 (58.9 KiB)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:BC:22:17:21
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 02:15:BC:22:17:21
          inet addr:192.168.2.10  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::15:bcff:fe22:1721/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:502 errors:0 dropped:3 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:236 errors:0 dropped:8 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:44998 (43.9 KiB)  TX bytes:24874 (24.2 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:13525 (13.2 KiB)  TX bytes:13525 (13.2 Ki

B)

And here is /etc/network/interfaces file:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet manual

iface eth1 inet dhcp

iface eth2 inet dhcp

iface br0 inet dhcp
hostname gw-143A
   bridged_ports  eth0

Wireless:

# iwconfig
tap0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

br0       no wireless extensions.

eth2      IEEE 802.11-bgn  Mode:Master  Frequency:2.457 GHz

eth1      IEEE 802.11-bgn  ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:9F64-0D78-CCAB-A8 [3]
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

sit0      no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.
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In order for your linux box to act as a WLAN access point, you will need to:

  • make sure your wireless NICs use a driver which supports AP. Output of lsmod | grep 80211 usually helps. If your driver doesn't support AP mode, you'll have to get a new WLAN adapter which does.
  • make sure your kernels supports IP forwarding and enable it. This is usually done by running echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward as root.
  • configure routing tables to forward network packets from br0 to eth2:

sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o br0 -j MASQUERADE

sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i br0 -o eth2 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i eth2 -o br0 -j ACCEPT

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