Public bug reported:
This is an enhancement request.
The pain needs to be taken out of setting up an ethernet bridge.
Ethernet bridging is a very useful feature for users of laptops to
connect both to another machine and to a wider network through that same
machine. Currently not even internet connection sharing is implemented.
This puts Ubuntu, and Linux desktops generally, behind Windows and Mac
OS in this regard.
I managed to set up a bridge on a Gentoo box a few months ago, but it
was hard work for a novice. I completely failed to do it in Dapper
despite all my efforts. Ideally you should be able set up a bridge
through the gnome networking control panel as easily as you can
configure an ethernet port to use DHCP.
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Setting up an ethernet bridge is painful
https://launchpad.net/bugs/79180
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