Fwd: Internet connection sharing

[Benoit Boissinot <bboissin+networkmanager gmail com>]

Forgot to hit reply all, sorry.


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From: Benoit Boissinot <bboissin+networkmanager gmail com>
Date: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:17 AM
Subject: Re: Internet connection sharing
To: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 02:05 +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Fernando Pereira <ferdonline gmail com> wrote:
>> > Thanks for the reply.
>> > Hum... if it does NAT then how can users know about that? But actually, many
>> > times I want to share the internet I get via wireless to my wired
>> > connection. It acts the same way?
>>
>> Yes you can create a shared wired connection via the edit connections
>> window too.
>
> When doing that, in the IPv4 tab, choose the "Shared" IPv4 method.
> Then, hook up your wired cable, and pick your new shared connection from
> the menu.  NM will now NAT the wired subnet to the current default
> connection, which I assume would be your wifi.  You can also share 3G ->
> wired this way.  Or 3G -> wifi.  etc.
>

By the way, are there plans to allow different connection on the same
device, so if your driver supports it you could share the wireless in
internet on a wifi ad-hoc network with the same card.

regards,

Benoit