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Idea #825: Simple Bridge of network connections

Written by jjmanton the 29 Feb 08 at 04:03. Category: Internet & Networking. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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How come in windows I can select 2 network connections, right click, and bridge them with no hassle?

In linux, I have to use firestarter or some other complicated way of doing a simple task.
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Written by jjmanton the 29 Feb 08 at 04:03.
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rawsausage wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 16:51
NetworkManager plugin :P It would be good for many users.

XVIIarcano wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 09:40
Rawsausage, I cannot understand if you are speaking of an already existent plug in or if you are suggesting to create one.

If it already exists could you please tell me where i find it? I did not see anything in the repos and I have been trying to configure it manually for quite some time but with no success and a lot of profanities so I am definitely in favor of a snappy solution.

Accaflacca wrote on the 4 Sep 08 at 19:53
An updated version of the current Network control panel would be equally nice

deejross wrote on the 2 Oct 08 at 20:54
This would hopefully be a good solution for us VirtualBox users that want to use Host Networking without using so many crazy scripts to manage it. Read the Network section from Ubuntu's Virtualbox docs:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox#Networking

And tell me how this is for human beings.

Absolute +1 from me.

Halomasterobi1177 wrote on the 10 Sep 09 at 02:54
That would be so nice, so far thats the ONE THING that Linux cant offer me that windows can. A simple, easy "bridge networks" thing would be sweet.

Omega wrote on the 29 Sep 09 at 13:43
A lot of the networking UI in Windows is fairly intuitive. Depending on external apps to abstract the functionality clearly is risky.

Either we need gnome-ish windows that have it all, or those apps need to be simplified for people to build an understanding on top of.

yoda2031 wrote on the 30 Sep 09 at 13:16
The Windows implementation is indeed sound (which is rare in my experience) but I propose we do something a little more snazzy.

I say there should be a simple, icon-based network manager as an alternative, which shows all the available network connections as icons surrounding the computer, and if you drag between the computer and an icon you create a network connection with some default settings but a dialogue pops up so you can confirm the settings before clicking ok; the advantage of this is that you can also drag between network connections to create bridges, or right-click on a space and click "add other host" or something and it would add another network/internet host, which you could drag between your host and theirs to create a VPN. Or you could drag a connection to the host to setup using it as a proxy on that connection.

Perhaps I'm just rambling... I'll set to work on a mock-up nonetheless and see if I can get in touch with the networkmanager guys about this (stop me if I'm wasting my time)


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