hey Tim. saw your post. could u let us know who the offending is is so we can avoid if possible!!
On Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 9:50 AM Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Patrick Dupre: > > > Yes the schamatics is correct. > > I set the gateway and now it works. > > > > Now > > 1) I wish to use internet from PC A. > > I guess that I need to set a name server > > But not possible manually > > Presuming that you just mean for using the internet... If internet > sharing is working, then tell A to use the same name server that is > working on B. > > > > 2) How do I need to set for PC 3 > > From PC A > > From PC C > > I tried several things but none works > > PC 3? You're adding a third PC into this mixture? > > If B was your gateway, and it had an extra spare ethernet port. Any > other approach would become a Frankenstein's monster of a network. > > > --------- ------------- ---------- > > > I am currently horsing around with a Frankenetwork at the moment, > somewhat similar to yours, thanks to my Fibre-to-the-house ISP becoming > greedy and my dropping them. Likewise it's a temporary thing, though > saving $60 to $80 a month is looking good, right now. > > I have a mobile phone which can act as a wireless access point, and > various devices around my house are using it as one. I only had to > switch on Mobile Hotspot on the phone for it to act that way. I set > its SSID to be the same as my former network, and the WiFi devices > around the house are happy. > > And I plug a desktop PC into the phone's USB port. I only had to > switch on USB tethering on the phone, and the (ye olde CentOS) PC > figured out what to do by itself, likewise if I do that with a Fedora > PC, but an old Mac flatly refuses to do that (the phone is Android, and > Apple are deliberately obstinate on not co-operating with non-Apple). > > Things mostly work fine, apart from being double-natted (the phone and > the phone service provider), and that's only one PC at a time. > > The hard parts about doing this, are: > > * The phone only supports up to 10 devices going through it (and there > were more than 10 gadgets on my former wireless LAN). > > * The phone service provider uses CGNAT (so I can't FTP into things). > > * There's several non-WiFi devices, and my ye old CentOS server > doesn't want to share the phone's internet service out its ethernet > connection. > > * All the desktop devices are still ethernet cabled together, so LAN > work still works, but connecting the phone to one of them takes over > from my DNS server and uses the phone as the DNS server sometimes > and sometimes not. So you get either no local name resolution or no > internet name resolution, until I fiddle with disconnecting and > reconnecting things via desktop manager. > > Dunno why my server doesn't want to co-operate with internet sharing, > I've done that kind of thing before (with dial-up modem on the serial > port). I settled for running Squid on that box, and the other > computers can browse the net using it as a HTTP proxy. > > But this kind of thing is messy and fragile (and temporary). Life's > much easier with a proper internet service going into a router. WiFi > and ethernet routers are quite cheap, now, probably on a par with a > WiFi dongle. In my case, all I have to do is find a new ISP that I'm > happy with (acceptable pricing and service levels, with a proper real > public IP, and preferably FTTP not 5G). > > We wouldn't have this no-public-IP problem if everyone had got their > act together and set up IPv6 properly. But our ISPs would rather faff > around with *very* limited CGNAT (my router used NAT, and I could > always FTP through that without having to do anything special). My > former ISP had IPv6 when I first joined, then a couple of months in > they removed it, and remotely reconfigured the supplied modem/router > combo to disable it. > > -- > > uname -rsvp > Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 > x86_64 > > Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. > I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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