Share a wifi connection via ethernet to an Xbox (K12.04LTS)

[keys84]

I am trying to share my wifi signal routing through my laptop to end at my Xbox360
I have no choie to use cables (My connection is with BTOpenzone/FON)


I have made this work before but now it wont seem to go together how it should
previously following the ICS thread at Ubuntu forums was all i needed for an ugly short term fix

now I would like something a bit smoother and if possible with DHCP allocation of IP's

I was using Wicd for a while as NM got buggy and have now changed back, so that may be a problem or not??
KNetworkManager seems very good now and more stable than wicd so would like to stick with it

[keys84]

Also thanks in advance to any help, or even just reading all that lol

[Detonate]

Is this what you are trying to do?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...nectionSharing

[keys84]

That is the guide I used previously
i had it set up with IP tables

the GUI methods are now working for me
but i had to allow dnsmasq to masquerade with the line

sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE

this is a work around for Ubuntu above 9.10 and below 11.10 so kubuntu is a bit behind here

Thanks for the help
keys

[keys84]

well the above worked for a while : )
so i know its possible after playing battlefield 3, yay

problem is it cut out after a couple of hours and now wont work
my xbox is being assigned an IP and subnet mask
but not a gateway IP or DNS IP
which it was before
so i guess DHCP i screwy

i used the above code and that worked

the only thing that sticks out to me is thst i read somewhere to install dnsmasq-base then uninstall dnsmasq

this has something to do with a bug interfering with KNetworkManager
i know eth0 cant connect at all with it installed with a failure message

any ideas anyone?

[keys84]

well i had dhcp3-server installed and running so uninstalled it connected and now i dont need to do the above trick so its plug and play, I hope : )