Adding Wireless support to existing network

From: Mike Gleason Jr Couturier (mikejrMAPSON_at_videotron.ca)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 00:08:48 -0400

Hello all,

I currently have a FBSD gateway for my wired home network
configured that way :

Cable modem --> FreeBSD Gateway --> Windows clients

The FreeBSD Gateway :
- FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE
- DHCP (192.168.1.0) / DNS server with dnsmasq-2.7
- NAT / IPFILTER
- Internal IP : 192.168.1.1
- External IP : DHCP

Everything works fine... clients automatically gets via DHCP from the
gateway their
IP (192.168.1.*), DHCP server (192.168.1.1), DNS server (192.168.1.1) and
default gateway (192.168.1.1) with dnsmasq... nothing complicated and basic
setup.

Now I want to install a 802.11b Netgear MA311 wireless PCI card into
my FreeBSD Gateway to add connectivity for future wireless clients... but
I want to keep the same infrastructure. I want (if possible) to assign IP
to wireless clients to the same range than wired clients (192.168.1.*).

Can I assign IP 192.168.1.2 to the wireless adapter on my FreeBSD
gateway and tell dnsmasq to serve (DHCP/DNS) on the wi0 interface too ?
Then I would need to bridge for the wireless clients to be able to
ping/access
wired clients.. is that it ? I just want wireless client and wired client
all act
like if it was a wired only network...

I found tutorials on the net about creating an access point for wireless
clients but not with hybrid configuration...

I'm little confused ! Is there someone patient enough to explain me what
I sould do / look for ?

Thank a lot !

Mike

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