Rogers, Android, tethering...

[ted leslie]

what is the routing? you would have to have some snat set up.
.tl
On Aug 15, 2012 2:09 PM, "Peter King" <peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I have been trying to tether my laptop (running gentoo) to my Android phone
> (Samsung Galaxy S non-rooted). According to the gentoo wiki page, one need
> only enable certain kernel options -- for USB network adapters, enable the
> multipurpose USB networking and then CDC ethernet, CDCEEM, simple USB
> links,
> and host for RNDIS, as well as embedded ARM linux -- and then plug in the
> phone to USB, select the "tethering" option from the settings menu, and you
> are good to go. And indeed, having done those things, I was rewarded with
> a usb0 networking device, on which I ran dhcpcd usb0 and got a network
> address
> and an entry in resolv.conf. Both route and ifconfig looked fine.
>
> Then, nothing.
>
> I could ping the phone from the computer, but no external sites. Nor did it
> work with a different set of nameservers, nor with ssh (for which there is
> no need for a DNS lookup). Nada.
>
> If I try to ping an external site, I do see the regular "4G" green up-arrow
> flashing, suggesting that data packets are leaving the phone, at least.
>
> Either I'm doing something wrong, which is likely since I'm an utter novice
> at this, or Rogers has figured out a way to block home tethering. I pay for
> a data plan, but not for separate tethering. But I don't see how they can
> tell when the phone is communicating on its own, so to speak, and when it
> is merely proxy for a computer behind it.
>
> Anyone know what the story is? Ideas, advice, suggestions?
>
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