Hi all.

Today, I came across the following usage scenario ::

1)
One router, serving internet, through wifi and wires.


2)
First machine, running Fedora-17, that was connected to internet, through its wifi interface.

This first machine, has both wireless and wired interface-cards.


3)
Another (second) machine was bought in, running Windows-7.

This second machine, has only wired interface.



Now, what I wanted is if somehow the internet could be made available on the second machine, by inter-connecting the first and second machine through a normal ethernet cable. However, I could not make it run

(As a bad workaround, I connected the second machine to the router via the ethernet cable, and got the internet working).


However, I am very interested in knowing how to accomplish what I originally intended. Looking at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...rk-bridge.html, it seems that bridging is the way to go, but this link seems to be valid only for VMs.


I will be grateful if any of you could point me to the right direction, of where to start? Just some "keywords" will be enough to get me started


Looking forward to some knowledge-enhancement gems


Thanks and Regards,
Ajay

I do not believe you can add wireless interface to bridge, so why arn't you looking at the NAT configuration? it is documented much better than bridge

it's not for fedora, but the distribution i use has a great simple guide for this kind of thing. you will need to enable ip forwarding on the fedora machine and use iptables to masquerade traffic going from fedora to the main router, also on the Win7 machine you will need to make sure it has a different IP subnet than the one given out by the main router. also set the Win7 default gateway to be the fedora machine.

here is a guide from my distros wiki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Internet_Share

Thanks Ygrex and psycroptic for the replies.
That did it