[ubuntu-in] Help in Home Networking

[Onkar Shinde]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 6:23 PM, nagendra prasad
<nagendra802000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> How are you doing? I hope everyone is happy with new version of Ubuntu
> 10.04. Anyways I need some help with home networking. I have a BSNL
> broadband connection. I recently bought a switch as well. Now I have 2
> different systems and a laptop that want to connect with each other. I have
> successfully connected systems with each other. I can able to access the
> shared files and folders from each other. What I need is to share internet.
> I am unable to share internet connection with each other. I can only able to
> use internet on my laptop. I am unable to use internet on my 2 other
> desktops. I have tried the manual IP conf, and stuff like that. My OS is
> Ubuntu Studio. Also, one more thing that I am able to access the router
> settings (192.168.1.1) from other 2 desktops but not the internet.

How have you configured your broadband connection? You should put the
router in routed mode (not bridged), configure connection settings
like user/pass on the router and start DHCP server on the modem.
By the way I am not sure why you bought a switch. You could have
easily bought a new router with more than one ethernet + wifi ports.


Onkar