<p>what is the routing? you would have to have some snat set up.<br>
.tl</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 15, 2012 2:09 PM, "Peter King" <<a href="mailto:peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA@public.gmane.org">peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have been trying to tether my laptop (running gentoo) to my Android phone<br>
(Samsung Galaxy S non-rooted). According to the gentoo wiki page, one need<br>
only enable certain kernel options -- for USB network adapters, enable the<br>
multipurpose USB networking and then CDC ethernet, CDCEEM, simple USB links,<br>
and host for RNDIS, as well as embedded ARM linux -- and then plug in the<br>
phone to USB, select the "tethering" option from the settings menu, and you<br>
are good to go. And indeed, having done those things, I was rewarded with<br>
a usb0 networking device, on which I ran dhcpcd usb0 and got a network address<br>
and an entry in resolv.conf. Both route and ifconfig looked fine.<br>
<br>
Then, nothing.<br>
<br>
I could ping the phone from the computer, but no external sites. Nor did it<br>
work with a different set of nameservers, nor with ssh (for which there is<br>
no need for a DNS lookup). Nada.<br>
<br>
If I try to ping an external site, I do see the regular "4G" green up-arrow<br>
flashing, suggesting that data packets are leaving the phone, at least.<br>
<br>
Either I'm doing something wrong, which is likely since I'm an utter novice<br>
at this, or Rogers has figured out a way to block home tethering. I pay for<br>
a data plan, but not for separate tethering. But I don't see how they can<br>
tell when the phone is communicating on its own, so to speak, and when it<br>
is merely proxy for a computer behind it.<br>
<br>
Anyone know what the story is? Ideas, advice, suggestions?<br>
<br>
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