I need a wired Ethernet connection between my laptop and a device. The device sends a high bandwidth UDP video stream to the laptop to save on its hard drive. The device also needs light, intermittent access to the Internet. I would like to provide this via the Wifi card in my laptop. My laptop has a wireless card and a wired Ethernet device (NIC). I have a crossover cable going between my laptop and the device. I am running F11 and network manager. I found this article: http://jeremy.visser.name/2009/03/24/simple-internet-connection-sharing-with-networkmanager/ Its interesting, but I think it misses a lot of details on how to set this up. I want my laptop to act as a DNS server to the device and allow it to connect to the laptop via the crossover cable and the wired Ethernet port. I also want my laptop to connect to the Internet via the wireless card and share that connection with the device. I've got my wireless connection up and running. I've got the wired connection to the device working, ie NetworkManager->Connection Information shows an IP address, speed, etc. (IP address = 10.42.43.1) I edited my wireless connection and set IPV4 Method to Shared to other computer. I installed dnsmasq. I turned on the DNSmasq server service. In system-config-firewall.py, I did the following: - trusted the wired Ethernet port. - trusted DNS and Multicast DNS - turned on masquerading for the wired ethernet port - applied all these In spite of all this my device is not getting an IP address. What am I missing ? How and what am I supposed to setup in the details for the wired ethernet device ? (ie NetworkManager-> Edit Connections-> Wired -> Edit (device name)... It has fields for MAC address (blank), MTU (automatic), 802.1x Security (disabled) and IPV4 Settings Method (????). If one selects Automatic (DHCP), is that saying we are expecting another server to give this port an IP address OR is that saying that the laptop will serve a DHCP address to any computer that requests it ? I guess what I am asking is, how do I tell the laptop to serve addresses to clients on the wired Ethernet port ? Thanks ! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
