Inet Connection Sharing

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TartanTangerine (was Indiepath) (Posted 2005) [#1]

I wish to connect my test machine with Ubuntu Linux to my XP machine and share the internet connection. I have the network set-up and I can share files I just can't get the damn thing to use the internet gateway. I have no routers - this is a simple peer-peer network.

LarsG (Posted 2005) [#2]

You might have better luck asking this question at the Ubuntu forums.. ;)

ashmantle (Posted 2005) [#3]

Basically, when you set up the XP machine to share an internet connection, it makes the LAN card use IP adress 192.168.0.1 as the gateway and DNS for the LAN. so I would think that you could choose whatever IP you'd like on that subnet (192.168.0.2-255), and just use 192.168.0.1 as gateway and DNS. that should get you on the internet at least. However, if you have any fancy firewalls installed on the windows machine, be sure that they're not interfering. (happened to me)

TartanTangerine (was Indiepath) (Posted 2005) [#4]

Thanks, I sorted the issue. My XP box was set to share with other machines on the wireless lan and not the "wired" lan. Thanks.

ashmantle (Posted 2005) [#5]

yeah, hate when that happens :p

TartanTangerine (was Indiepath) (Posted 2005) [#6]

And I can't bridge them and share the connection. WTF is the bridge for if you can't use it.