Sharing an internet connection through the Ethernet port
- by Bob Cunningham
I have a small living room PC (Bohica, running fully-updated Ubuntu 10.10/Maverick) connected to my HDTV that I use for web browsing and media streaming. It connects via WiFi (wlan0) to my Fedora server (Snafu) that in turn connects to the internet. I use static addressing, and everything has been working fine.
I just got a Blu-ray player, and I'd like to give it wired network access to the internet via Bohica's available wired ethernet port (eth0). So far, I haven't been to get eth0 and the network configured to get the Blu-ray player talking to the internet.
Here's my wlan0 configuration:
ip4 addr: 192.168.0.100
mask: /24 (255.255.255.0)
gateway: 192.168.0.4 (fedora box)
The Blu-ray player is set to an IP of 192.168.0.98/24, with the same gateway as above.
I want eth0 set to an IP of 192.168.0.99/24, but when I do this using nm-connection-editor I lose internet access (the system tries to use eth0 as the default internet access interface).
How do I get my blu-ray player to talk to the internet through Bohica, and do so without disrupting my current (working) network?
Thanks.
Edit: Here's the relevant output from nm-tool with the Blu-ray player connected:
$ nm-tool
NetworkManager Tool
State: connected
- Device: eth0
Type: Wired
Driver: forcedeth
State: disconnected
Default: no
HW Address: 90:FB:A6:2C:94:32
Capabilities:
Carrier Detect: yes
Speed: 100 Mb/s
Wired Properties
Carrier: on
- Device: wlan0 [wlan0]
Type: 802.11 WiFi
Driver: ndiswrapper
State: connected
Default: yes
HW Address: 00:26:5A:C0:D0:05
IPv4 Settings:
Address: 192.168.0.100
Prefix: 24 (255.255.255.0)
Gateway: 192.168.0.4
