Re: Fwd: Internet connection sharing

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 01:18 +0100, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> Forgot to hit reply all, sorry.
> 
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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.

Yes, but at this time, no drivers support it well in combination with
wpa_supplicant.  In the future that will be possible with nl80211-based
drivers but the kernel infrastructure just isn't there at this time.

Dan