[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#636180: network-manager: "Shared to other computers" does not work

[Carl Fink]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.4.0-2
Severity: normal
Tags: wheezy

According to the docs I can find, if I use nm-applet >> Edit Connections >>
Auto Eth0 >> Edit >> IPV4 Settings >> change "Method" to "Shared to other
computers" then any PC connected to the Ethernet port should see a DHCP
miniserver (dnsmasq), and once connected should be NAT-connected to the
Internet via my broadband wireless connection.

But it doesn't happen. According to syslog, instead when the system detects
a
cable plugged into Ethernet it *sends* DHCP client requests to eth0, instead
of
listening for them.

I tried this with a Fedora LiveCD and it worked flawlessly. I would have
tried
a Wheezy LiveCD to eliminate the possibility that it's a configuration
problem
with my system, but no such thing seems to exist.

If this should be filed against nm-applet instead, please move it and my
apologies.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.113       add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         1.4.12-5    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  isc-dhcp-client              4.1.1-P1-17 ISC DHCP client
ii  libc6                        2.13-10     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.4.12-5    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.94-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                  1.4.6-7     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.28.6-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                  2.10.5-2    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0               172-1       GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                       1.1-7       library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                  0.8.4.0-2   network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                  0.8.4.0-2   network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0        0.101-4     PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                     2.19.1-4    Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-27      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                         172-1       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                0.7.3-3     client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base                  2.57-1     A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptables                      1.4.11.1-3 administration tools for packet fi
ii  modemmanager                  0.4.997-1  D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  policykit-1                   0.101-4    framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp                           2.4.5-5    Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd                 0.6.30-5   Avahi IPv4LL network address confi

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