I was misled. I was informed that one could not share an internet connection through an ad-hoc wlan connection. I have found I was wrong/misinformed and it is possible. At this point I am only partially sharing, however.
I changed my wlan connection from my laptop to desktop to be ad-hoc and they are connected. I have been trying to setup iptables so that I can share the connection on the desktop but oddly, it only appears to be partially successful. I am sending and receiving email but I cannot access the web. Any attempt to ping a host from my laptop ends up in "Destination unreachable" strings (unless I am pinging my desktop directly). What is needed to get this working? What on the desktop and on the laptop must be done to finally bring a fully shared internet connection to fruition? I don't understand how I can be able to send email and receive email (via my local postfix MTA) but not access the web. praedor -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - Friedrich Nietzsche.
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