Re: Control Center App vs nm-connection-editor

[Simon Geard <delgarde ihug co nz>]

On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 14:17 -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 15:52 +1300, Simon Geard wrote:
> > One thing I noted the other day is that the Gnome UI doesn't support
> > setting up connection sharing (i.e configuring the machine as a gateway,
> > running a DHCP server, etc. Had to resort to nm-connection-editor for
> > that.
>
> It does for creation of a WiFi Hotspot, which will then have access to
> your upstream ISP (whether over ethernet, WWAN, etc).  But it doesn't
> AFAIK support connection sharing between arbitrary connections.

In my case, I have a workstation with a failing wireless card, an old
netbook with working wireless, and a crossover ethernet cable. Probably
not a typical use case, I'll grant...

Simon.