11-06-2015, 03:15 AM
Please forgive me for not being able to acknowledge who gave me what in the way of links to further information. But somebody here led me to the path of setting the downstream network interface via IPv4 Settings->Method: to "Shared to other computers". I had tried this once before but knew it wasn't working because the interface was being configured to 10.42.0.1/24! Then I read further that it is actually setting up a network and the various services for it. So I adjusted for that and did indeed get the downstream test machine tacked on to the LAN in a fashion.
But this is like Windows XP's Internet Connection Sharing. I'm not looking for ICS. (One guy needed to dual boot with the same (sub)net, see the nightmare he went through just to change that 10.24.0 to 192.168.0 here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2179393 )
I had tried using Windows XP's ICS for my setup way back when I started. I do not want to make a subnet just to get to the wireless router's modem port. That's why I switched to bridging on Windows XP and got exactly the behavior I want and need.
Now, if someone could kindly tell me what I'm missing to enable the bridge I can get on with the pathetic life I lead when not updating this thread.
But this is like Windows XP's Internet Connection Sharing. I'm not looking for ICS. (One guy needed to dual boot with the same (sub)net, see the nightmare he went through just to change that 10.24.0 to 192.168.0 here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2179393 )
I had tried using Windows XP's ICS for my setup way back when I started. I do not want to make a subnet just to get to the wireless router's modem port. That's why I switched to bridging on Windows XP and got exactly the behavior I want and need.
Now, if someone could kindly tell me what I'm missing to enable the bridge I can get on with the pathetic life I lead when not updating this thread.