Bridging ether-usb to a wireless NIC
Xiangfu Liu
xiangfu at sharism.cc
Fri Nov 18 00:58:28 EST 2011
Hi Delbert
never try bridge. I just use:
ifconfig usb0 192.168.254.100
iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE -s 192.168.254.0/24
sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
route add -host 192.168.254.101 usb0
xiangfu
On 11/18/2011 12:31 PM, Delbert Franz wrote:
> I spent some hours this afternoon attempting to connect the Ben to the
> Internet via a bridge to a wireless NIC. There seemed to be rather
> complete instructions for Debian, what I have running on my netbook.
> However, something was not correct and I could not get things to work.
>
> Has anyone on the list been successful in doing that? Clearly it is
> quite a bit more complex than using a bridge to a standard NIC for a
> cable connection.
>
> I'm interested in getting this working because I want to replace my
> seven-year old laptop with a newer version, perhaps an ultrabook.
> Several of the recent models announced do not have an ethernet port.
> Of course, I can plug in a usb ethernet atdapter, I already do that
> with the XO from OLPC project. However, it would be nice to be able
> to dispense with that.
>
> Thanks for any pointers or experiences.
>
> Delbert
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