Comments on: How to share your Internet connection on Ubuntu

By: streetbiker

streetbiker — Fri, 13 May 2011 22:43:00 +0000

This was a huge help to me, thanks!!! Very well written and explicit with regard to exact steps to follow.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:40:28 +0000

Worked like a charm, doumo arigatou.

“After doing all of this when I load Firestarter I get a message saying that the firewall could not be started because eth0 is not ready, I tried rebooting and I followed everything very precisely. Any ideas why this is happening?”

I got the same but that was because there was nothing connected to eth0, check to see if the other machine is connected.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:14:04 +0000

After doing all of this when I load Firestarter I get a message saying that the firewall could not be started because eth0 is not ready, I tried rebooting and I followed everything very precisely. Any ideas why this is happening?

By: Rohel

Rohel — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:15:31 +0000

Nevermind I got Firestarter to work but it won’t locate my wireless connection

By: Rohel

Rohel — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:26:34 +0000

Firestarter doesn’t work for me.

By: chris s

chris s — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:26:28 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! NOW I HAVE A HOME NETWORK SET UP FROM UBUNTU!!!! Finally a replacement to windows server. ewwww!!! windows.. win-blows.

By: chris s

chris s — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:25:56 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! NOW I HAVE A HOME NETWORK SET UP FROM UBUNTU!!!! Finally a replacement to windows server. ewwww!!! windows.. win-blows. lol

By: Bigbrovar

Bigbrovar — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:30:47 +0000

thanks mate .. i appreciate the feed back

By: zandoval

zandoval — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:40:30 +0000

BRAVO – The steps are revealed – I find it interesting that you need to set up a net sharing a SAMBA file with assigned IP addresses before even thinking about getting going with internet connection sharing – Installing firestarter and DHCP3-server on the same command line at least insured repository compatibility – The Gedit commands worked – I AM HAPPY – It works…

By: grundygreen

grundygreen — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:35:34 +0000

I’ve look at both howto’s .
Could you not use dnsmasq to feed eth0?
If so how?
They set up pfsense at the charity I work for.
I can get on but it screws up my net installs. So feeding an ad hoc install subnet from a laptop is a boon.