How do you share the internet through a Linux laptop?

by RodBegbie

Im trying to share the internet through a wireless connection on my linux laptop, through to my xbox 360 (via ethernet cable)

You need to use NAT and ip forwarding, just google those topics and you’ll be on your way in no time. If you set up a dhcp server on the linux box you can run the 10/100 to a switch and share internet with multiple devices.

Bridging, for example, links the two network adapters so that Ethernet frames flow freely between them, just as if they were connected on a simple hub. All of the traffic heard on one interface is passed through to the other.

You can set up a bridge so that the computer itself does not participate in the network at all, essentially transforming the computer into an overpriced Ethernet repeater. But more likely you will want to access the Internet as well as bridge traffic between the ports. That isn’t complicated, either.

Bridging requires the bridge-utils package, a standard component of every modern Linux distribution that provides the command-line utility brctl.

To create a bridge between your network adapters, begin by taking both adapters offline with the ifdown command. In our example eth0/eth1 setup, run sudo ifdown eth0 and sudo ifdown eth1 from the command line.

Next, create the bridge with sudo brctl addbr bridge0. The addbr command creates a new “virtual” network adapter named bridge0. You then connect your real network adapters to the bridge with addif: sudo brctl addif bridge0 eth0 adds the first adapter, and sudo brctl addif bridge0 eth1 adds the second.

Once configured, you activate the bridge0 virtual adapter just as you would a normal, physical Ethernet card. You can assign it a static IP address with a command like sudo ifconfig bridge0 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0, or tell it to retrieve its configuration via DHCP with sudo dhclient bridge0.

You can then attach as many computers, hub, switches, and other devices as you want through the machine’s Ethernet port, and they will all be able to see and communicate with each other. On the downside, if you have a lot of traffic, your computer will spend some extra energy passing all of those Ethernet frames back and forth across the two adapters.

and toshiba folio 100 tablet

by RodBegbie

toshiba tablet 2011 get My plan is to use Foxit because it allows you to highlight and annotate sections of the PDF. Or at least it allows these functions in Windows. If that’s the sole purpose of the laptop, what are the minimum specs that you think I could get away with? And are there better Linux apps for PDF markup? Thanks!

You could also use “pdftohtml” to convert the file and highlight text that way. It wouldn’t take much processing power under Linux to do it either way. “GhostScript” may also be useful under either Windows or Linux, since it can also read .PS files, as well. A 500 MHz K6-2 or Pentium II/III processor would be enough to do the job.

~~ ScienceMikey