On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > After some discussion in a related thread on fedora-devel, I've thought > through the WiFi connection sharing a bit more, and been schooled on a > few things. > > Mac OS X provides a full infrastructure-mode network when sharing an > internet connection over wireless. It also provides DHCP to clients of > that wifi network, and uses addresses in the 10.x.x.x space. > > Unfortunately, given the current driver situation, NM on Linux won't be > able to do the same thing, since few drivers support master mode well at > this time. Therefore, NM 0.7 will: > > 1) as the _originator_ of a wireless network, either by sharing a > connection or creating a new wireless network, use 802.11 Ad-Hoc and > provide a DHCP server (see below) > > 2) require opt-in to get IPv4 LL on device types known to usually use > DHCP, requiring the user to pick between Auto-IP and DHCP (ie, Auto-IP > and DHCP will be mutually exclusive) > > 3) Perform DHCP by default on Ad-Hoc networks, unless the user has opted > into Auto-IP in the connection editor > > 4) use dnsmasq as the DHCP server for shared connections. The ISC dhcpd > uses 20MB of RAM when running and that's just unacceptable. dnsmasq > also provides proxied DNS, which is a nice bonus. > > Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list >
Since the network is ad-hoc I assume there won't be a way to set encryption? _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
