Re: Sharing connection
Is NAT with two or more wired connections also planned? ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Sharing connection
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:01:04 -0400 Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NM probably won't set master (AP) mode at all, for a number of > reasons: Well, it sounds reasonable to set up the ad-hoc mode only. It will do the job anyway. Nice to hear something like this is planned at all! -- Regards, Dawid Wróbel ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Sharing connection
On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 11:27 +0200, Dawid Wróbel wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:35:56 +0200 "Antonio Bulgheroni" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Great! I will wait for that > It would be even better if it was possible to set up a simple AP > on the wifi card to share the internet. It shouldn't > introduce a lot of code, most of the things (bridging) will > be/are done anyway as a part of connection sharing feature. > There would only be a need to change the mode of the card into master. > (like we do it now with iwconfig). Unfortunately not all the drivers > support mode changing this way, although let's hope it will > change in the future as the drivers will be ported to the unified > mac80211 stack. NM probably won't set master (AP) mode at all, for a number of reasons: 1) most drivers right now don't support master mode, or have a lot of hoops to jump through to get to master mode (different firmware, restart card, reload modules, etc). Many of the drivers that do (ie, based on mac80211) just aren't usable enough yet. 2) Master mode is less tested on many drivers, if they support it 3) wpa_supplicant doesn't support master mode, nor should it 4) You have to start and manage a lot more daemons, like dhcpd Both Windows (usually) and OS X (always) set the card to adhoc mode, set a self-assigned IPv4 address, and then NAT the connection. That's the route we're likely to take with NetworkManager, because it's the simplest way to get there, and it works reasonably well. If people _really_ want a dedicated AP, that's what hostapd is for. We can revisit AP-mode in the future, but I believe adhoc is the immediate solution. Dan ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Sharing connection
This is exactly what I meant. I'm pretty sure that my wifi card (ipw2200) supports this MASTER modality and that configuring everything ad-hoc by hands can help, but I'm not in hurry... and I prefer to wait a nice script doing everything for me in a safe way. Thanks again Antonio On 6/24/07, Dawid Wróbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:35:56 +0200 "Antonio Bulgheroni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great! I will wait for that It would be even better if it was possible to set up a simple AP on the wifi card to share the internet. It shouldn't introduce a lot of code, most of the things (bridging) will be/are done anyway as a part of connection sharing feature. There would only be a need to change the mode of the card into master. (like we do it now with iwconfig). Unfortunately not all the drivers support mode changing this way, although let's hope it will change in the future as the drivers will be ported to the unified mac80211 stack. -- Regards, Dawid Wróbel ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list -- Antonio Bulgheroni, PhD Computers have a lot in common with air conditioners: Once you open WINDOWS, they stop working properly. ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Sharing connection
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:35:56 +0200 "Antonio Bulgheroni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great! I will wait for that It would be even better if it was possible to set up a simple AP on the wifi card to share the internet. It shouldn't introduce a lot of code, most of the things (bridging) will be/are done anyway as a part of connection sharing feature. There would only be a need to change the mode of the card into master. (like we do it now with iwconfig). Unfortunately not all the drivers support mode changing this way, although let's hope it will change in the future as the drivers will be ported to the unified mac80211 stack. -- Regards, Dawid Wróbel ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Sharing connection
Great! I will wait for that cheers, On 6/23/07, Darren Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/23/07, Antonio Bulgheroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear NetworkManager users, > I would like to share my wired connection through the wireless device, > is it possible? > I believe that is possible configuring manually the network devices, but > I'd like to have something easy to do in agreement with the spirit of > NetworkManager. > > Thanks for your help! > > Antonio > > -- I believe this is planned for 0.7: http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerToDo -- Antonio Bulgheroni, PhD Computers have a lot in common with air conditioners: Once you open WINDOWS, they stop working properly. ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Sharing connection
On 6/23/07, Antonio Bulgheroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear NetworkManager users, I would like to share my wired connection through the wireless device, is it possible? I believe that is possible configuring manually the network devices, but I'd like to have something easy to do in agreement with the spirit of NetworkManager. Thanks for your help! Antonio -- I believe this is planned for 0.7: http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerToDo ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
