Bug 214985

Summary: Allow Users to Easily Bridge Connections (internet connection sharing)
Product: Network Management Reporter: Anthony Scire <aaaantoine>
Component: WirelessAssignee: Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: auzy83, lamarque
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.9   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Anthony Scire 2009-11-17 16:25:23 UTC
Version:           1030904-1 (using KDE 4.3.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Archlinux Packages

I would like to be able to connect my to the Internet via wireless, and then configure my ethernet port to route an Internet connection to an attached device.

There doesn't seem to be any easy way to do this in knetworkmanager.

There is a lack of explanation of the different IP Address "Configure" types, both in the application and on the net.  Manual and Automatic are mostly self-explanatory, but Link-Local and Shared are very ambiguous to me (I get the feeling one of these is supposed to allow connection bridging, but I don't know).
Comment 1 Andrew Luecke 2011-04-03 02:28:19 UTC
It's worth noting that Windows has had this feature since Windows XP. 

Any chance of at least confirming the bug?
Comment 2 Lamarque V. Souza 2011-04-05 23:24:12 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 212941 ***