Internet Connection Sharing setup via command line

mikeyj001

Hi,

I'm using Wayfire, and trying to implement internet connection sharing on Solus. I had this working with 2 commands before moving from Sabayon to Solus, which were:

echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

and

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o <my WiFi device name> -j MASQUERADE

It doesn't work on the command line, and I created a systemd service to use a script to do the same, but it doesn't work as expected.

There is no iptables service to enable in Solus, so I copied and enabled/started the service mentioned in the following post:

iptables.services

but this still doesn't work on Solus. Is this a known issue? Can anyobne help me solve this issue?

Thanks

mikeyj001

After months of trying to figure this out, I found that Solus doesn't have a dhcp-server package for me to install.

Using the rpm command to try and install a dhcp-server rpm from major rpm-based distributions didn't work, so I had to consider building one from source.

I had issues with building the dhcp source, so tried ISC's new version called kea. The Boost packages I installed in Solus caused weird build issues, saying that it couldn't find libraries that were already installed, so I decided to build Boost from source.

A word of advice, don't build on a NAS drive, because you may have to create symbolic links manually.

After building and installing Boost, I was then able to build and install kea.

All that remained was to edit kea-dhcp4.conf for my setup. After building the source taken from here, my kea didn't use systemd, but uses keactrl to start, stop or reload the kea service. So the problem I had was because Solus doesn't appear to have a dhcp-server package available.

I hope this helps someone.

mikeyj001

Admins, please tag as solved