Setting a wireless access point on Ubuntu server 11.10

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Published on 2011-11-19T02:06:19Z Indexed on 2011/11/19 9:55 UTC
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I am trying to setup a wifi access point with my Ubuntu server.

I have managed to get my phone to connect the wireless and now it get a DHCP lease.

Though it still cannot ping out or get pinged by anything on my network.

I am prety sure my problem is iptables, but I not sure what would be wrong.

Here is what my rules look like. (The ones pertaining to the bridge interface)

# Allow traffic to / from wireless bridge interface
iptables -A INPUT -i br0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -o br0 -j ACCEPT

I am guessing my rules are a little lean, the bridge exists on the same subnet as everything else on my network, I am using a 10.0.0.0/24 subnet.

EDIT Oh yeah I should mention also, when I do a ping test, I get Destination Host Unreachable as the error.

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