Is there a GUI way to bridge two connections

[tunyawat]

Hi, I want to to bridge two connections together, one is from NIC (et0) and another one is from wireless receiver (wl0). I'm quite scared to do things terminally. Is there a program (GUI) for this?

[sadohert]

Pretty sure the answer is no. I've been hunting around to see if the network-manager gui and how it administers my network interfaces will play nicely with a bridge setup. On my last Gusty install I basically had to remove network-manager and setup the bridge manually to make it work. I can see this coming eventually, but have no idea when.

[rootless]

Sorry to revive an old thread- but I'd like to agree with this. There needs to be a GUI way of doing this- not that I don't know my way around the terminal, but nm-applet is a fragile piece of garbage. The script way of doing this seems rather hackish and the applet is liable to break if you look at it the wrong way.

/rant over.

[kornphlake]

Firestarter will let you bridge connections, select which interface you want to be LAN and which you want to be WAN then check the box that says something about connection sharing.

[dmizer]

Firestarter will let you bridge connections, select which interface you want to be LAN and which you want to be WAN then check the box that says something about connection sharing.

Firestarter causes more problems than it solves. This is not a good solution.

[kornphlake]

Firestarter causes more problems than it solves. This is not a good solution.

Do you care to elaborate as to what kind of problems firestarter causes? I don't have a lot of experience with firestarter or ubuntu, but given my limited exposure firestarter seems to do what it's advertised to do.