Sharing 3G Mobile broadband dongle over wireless

[markturnip]

Hello, I had previously been sharing my ethernet connection over wireless using Hostapd & dnsmasq on my headless server as this tutorial shows: here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=716192) which had been working fine.

I now wish to share my USB mobile broadband over the wireless. I using a ZTE MF112.

I was able to get the connection working using the application wvdial.

- Firstly I had to create a hard link between /dev/gsmodem & /dev/modem
- wvdial then made a new connection ppp0 which would work for internet access.

Changing the interfaces to have the br0 port like so:


iface br0 inet static
address 192.168.1.1
network 192.168.1.0
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
bridge-ports eth1 ppp0 wlan0

Flushing the IPTables & then adding:


iptables -A FORWARD -i br0 -s 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp0 -d 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE


Doing so works fine, but I'm not entirely sure how to make this all automated. I could try making a script to launch, but I don't have a huge amount of experience writing scripts.

I wonder if anyone can offer a better solution? Is wvdial the best application to use?
Keeping in mind I'm using a headless server.

One note: I use Squeezebox server & the scrobbling didn't seem to be able to connect to last.fm. Do I need to specify which connection Squeezebox uses?

Any advice is really appreciated!

MT

[markturnip]

I guess all my script might need to be is:


wvdial

iptables -F
iptables -X
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -t nat -X
iptables -t mangle -F
iptables -t mangle -X
iptables -t raw -F
iptables -t raw -X

iptables -A FORWARD -i br0 -s 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp0 -d 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Perhaps wrapping it in start & stop commands.

My question is, how is it possible to make a script that will run as a daemon & won't quit once I stop terminal from my machine?

I have a feeling if I try the above the iptables commands will never get called as the initial wvdial command will still be feeding back results? In which case would I have to make wvdial another script daemon that gets called, wait a few seconds & then call the iptables commands?

Thanks.

MT

[alexfish]

hi

if calling wvdial direct then probably need separate script

to execute , possible check to see if pppd is running

a=`pidof pppd`
if [ $a > 0 ]
then
echo " ppp up "
exec <yoursript>
else
echo "ppp down"
fi

or

a=`pidof pppd`
if [ $a > 0 ]
then
echo " ppp up "
< your script bits here>

else
echo " ppp down"
exit
fi


could possibly wrap with loop and then exit loop when pppd is up

added:

could try ppp . the call "pon myisp" pon does not tie up the terminal so the script can be self contained