Internet Connection Sharing not working

[johnjdoe]

Hi all,

I followed the instructions from here: http://wiki.wifipineapple.com/#!ics.md

The result is the following:

Pineapple Netmask [255.255.255.0]:
Pineapple Network [172.16.42.0/24]:
Interface between PC and Pineapple [eth0]:
Interface between PC and Internet [wlan0]:
Internet Gateway [192.168.1.1]:
IP Address of Host PC [172.16.42.42]:
IP Address of Pineapple [172.16.42.1]:

     _ .           ___          \||/   Internet: 192.168.1.1 - wlan0
   (  _ )_  <-->  [___]  <-->  ,<><>,  Computer: 172.16.42.42
 (_  _(_ ,)       \___\        '<><>' Pineapple: 172.16.42.0/24 - eth0

On the Pineapple, the internet connection is not working:

root@Pineapple:~# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
172.16.42.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 br-lan
root@Pineapple:~# ping www.google.de
ping: bad address 'www.google.de'

On the Linux machine it is:

root@Eniac:# route
Kernel-IP-Routentabelle
Ziel            Router          Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 wlan0
172.16.42.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 wlan0
root@Eniac:# ping www.google.De
PING www.google.De (173.194.66.94) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from we-in-f94.1e100.net (173.194.66.94): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=39.9 ms
64 bytes from we-in-f94.1e100.net (173.194.66.94): icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=43.2 ms
64 bytes from we-in-f94.1e100.net (173.194.66.94): icmp_seq=3 ttl=46 time=43.5 ms

I always tried different methods to give clients access to internet (see my posting from yesterday): client mode WLAN1, client mode WLAN2 and now over sharing it from a computer via eth0. Nothing! :-(

Do you have perhaps an explanation for this behavior or some more tips? Thank you in advance!

[Crazy52]

on the pineapple web UI try updating the default route

(this was my issue)

Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         172.16.42.42    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 br-lan
172.16.42.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 br-lan

Edited January 29, 2015 by Crazy52

[johnjdoe]

Thank you Crazy52! This worked fine. Here is the result:

root@Pineapple:~# route add default gw 172.16.42.42 br-lan
root@Pineapple:~# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         172.16.42.42    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 br-lan
172.16.42.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 br-lan
root@Pineapple:~# ping www.google.de
PING www.google.de (194.78.99.158): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 194.78.99.158: seq=0 ttl=57 time=26.155 ms
64 bytes from 194.78.99.158: seq=1 ttl=57 time=25.901 ms

And the clients have internet access too now. :-)

But now the question: Should this not work automaticly? It's nowhere documented ...

In view of the problems that I have (see my post from yesterday) with the network and after reading some other posts, I ask myself if there are possibly bugs in the firmware 2.2?