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This HowTo is part of a collection of simple commands and small scripts to get things done under Linux. Straight to the point, it serves as an aide-memoire for us and saves you the time of trawling through endless, confusing, and incomplete threads in discussion forums.




How to set up an ad-hoc network
The first two lines set up an ad-hoc wireless network on a device with a wireless and a wired network interface. The last three lines make sure the wireless device has full internet access.


#set up an ad-hoc network

iwconfig wlan0 essid kerberix mode ad-hoc channel 1 key
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ifconfig wlan0 192.168.233.40

iptables --table nat --append POSTROUTING --out-interface eth0 -j MASQUERADE
iptables --append FORWARD --in-interface wlan0 -j ACCEPT
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward




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