Bridge Laptop's Ethernet to Wireless
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The laptop wirelessly connects to my router, while the desktop is connected to the laptop with an ethernet wire.
The desktop successfully can use the internet if I set the connection to be shared on the laptop.
The problem is, I need the laptop to forward the desktop's packets across the link unmodified, so the desktop is on the same network as the router.
The desktop needs its IP assigned by the router, so that I can access it from another computer as "192.168.1.8".
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