Re: dnsmasq-base does work for connection sharing

[Jacobs Shannon <shanen yahoo co jp>]

> Not sure what I did differently this last time, but
> dnsmasq-base (alone) is working properly for the 
> connection sharing. I've noticed a few minor behavioral 
> differences, but I think that's probably just
> some differences in the security settings.
> 
> The other problems I mentioned are minor, and I can just live
> with them for now. I'll work with this configuration for a 
> few weeks and see how things go. 
> 
> Thanks again for your encouragement.

And sometimes it doesn't... Presumably whatever I saw last night was
whatever was going on the first time when it didn't seem to be
working. I don't know what state it is in, but various lesser
solutions such as tweaking the configuration settings (in various
orders) and restarting the network don't fix it. Nothing short of a
full reboot seems to do the trick.

Whatever state it is in, the DHCP part seems to be working, and the
gateway computer is connected normally, but none of the guest
computers can reach the external network, though they can ping the
gateway machine. I now realize that I didn't do quite enough testing
to pin it to the DNS, but I'll check with an external IP address the
next time I see it...


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