[PLUG] How do I use a tablet WiFi hotspot for my desktop machine?

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Mon Jul 25 23:01:06 UTC 2016


>>>>> "Dick" == Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> writes:

Dick> On 07/25/2016 09:48 AM, Russell Senior wrote:
>> 
>>>> Aha!  I remember now, you need to turn on forwarding on the X200.
>>>> 
>>>> Check "cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/forwarding" ... it is
>>>> probably 0.

Dick> It is.

>>>> If so, "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/forwarding" will turn
>>>> it on.  You can add this to your script with the iptables rule.

Dick> First I tried:

Dick> rsteff at ThinkPad-X200-Tablet:~$ sudo echo 1 >
Dick> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/forwarding bash:
Dick> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/forwarding: Permission denied
Dick> rsteff at ThinkPad-X200-Tablet:~$

Dick> Note that I was not asked for a password.

Dick> Then I tried it without sudo:

Dick> rsteff at ThinkPad-X200-Tablet:~$ echo 1 >
Dick> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/forwarding bash:
Dick> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/forwarding: Permission denied
Dick> rsteff at ThinkPad-X200-Tablet:~$

Yeah, try sudo -s first to get a root shell, then the echo command.


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