Video: Fedora 10 Connection Sharing
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Video by Colby Hoke.
Video by Colby Hoke.
Red Hat engineer Dan Williams demonstrates the shared networking capabilities of Fedora 10.
Red Hat engineer Dan Williams demonstrates the shared networking capabilities of Fedora 10.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
I’m very excited to see progress on this. Clint and I had a bear of a time trying to get this to work at the hotel we stayed at during OLF.
October 17th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Hi,
It’s wondorful. I am waiting for it to be general available.
Regards,
kaushal
October 17th, 2008 at 10:26 am
This is really great, what can you do with network manager. Would be nice, if there was support of 801.X, as well
October 17th, 2008 at 10:33 am
abslutly cool. Really easy to handle.
great work!
October 17th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Will this update to NetworkManager end up getting backported to Fedora 9 or 8?
October 20th, 2008 at 12:21 am
It’s too bad these instructions are useless in WAY too many situations.
Biggest flaw: no built-in support for sharing across Ethernet instead of WiFi. Many of our WiFi cards don’t support promiscuous mode as you’d have to know (for anybody else, it means they can’t be used to share a connection), and the machine we’re sharing our connection with may be a desktop with Ethernet only, so leaving WiFi sharing as the only option is ridiculous.
Second problem and it’s more along the “nuisance” lines is that there’s no easy way to disconnect from a WiFi network with one click. If I start the machine up and it sees a WiFi network that it’s connected to in the past it will grab it and use that instead of the cellmodem connection. I have to go into the details for that SSID and turn off auto-connect first thing. In a very crowded area I might have to do that a few times. One-click disconnect is a killer feature of Wicd…
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I have to say great work! if you have to configure a card you have just entered the “Twilight Zone” we are light years from where a user would have to spend time pulling all the drivers together just to add a adapter. So again I say great job!
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:32 pm
@Jim
Though I don’t have another computer to test this with it seems that to share over ethernet you right click the network-manager icon, go to the “wired” tab at the top, click add, then in the new window that comes up go to the “ipv4 settings” tab and choose “Shared to other computers” from the “Method” dropdown menu.
October 30th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
[...] UPDATE: Forgot to mention — we got a deal with the hotel, which was already giving us an incredibly low group rate, to provide one free wifi account per paid room. Add that to Fedora 10’s NetworkManager connection sharing, and hopefully you get happier Fedora campers. [...]
October 31st, 2008 at 1:59 pm
This is fantastic! Now I can set up temporary networks for my NDS instead of changing the password settings on my router every time I want to connect. Nice to see some technology from the OLPC is coming through.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Network Manager mit Connection Sharing
Der Network Manager in Fedora 10 wird eine nette Neuerung mitbringen: Connection Sharing. Mit wenigen Klicks lässt sich damit der eigene Rechner in einen WLAN-Access Point verwandeln (passender Chipsatz vorausgesetzt). So kann man eine bestehende Net…
November 7th, 2008 at 12:49 am
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November 10th, 2008 at 5:33 am
Hi All!
I’ve been using Linux for the last 5 – 6 years on my Notebooks. I’ve just bought a new Seagate 320 Gb HDD to replace my existing 160 Gb HDD which runs openSuSE 10.0 on my H-P Notebook. And I’ll be trying out a lot of Linux distros in the very near future.
I’ve been using PCMCIA cards or USB devices to go WiFi forever. Will Fedora 10 offer a solution to my chipset:
Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)
I’d like to get rid of the USB WiFi device that I now have.
Regards,
JJMacey
Phoenix, Arizona
November 25th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
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December 29th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Terrific stuff. I was just about to buy a wireless router for sharing internet…”network sharing” saved my bucks right away…..phenomenally cool.
– kashyap
December 30th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
[...] There are also numerous new applications that are, for now, only available on Fedora. The first of my favorites is connection sharing. With this, you can turn your laptop into a router/Wi-Fi access point. You can still use your notebook the same as ever, but at the same time share your broadband connection with others. This is a handy when there aren’t enough Ethernet connections to go around and no other Wi-Fi. [...]
January 5th, 2009 at 9:45 am
the video was good but Fedora still has not got drivers for my Brod com WIFI card. The Fedora web site could have better listing on what new packages are in the next generations and a better list of hardware.
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