ad-hoc for ipod touch with internet

stevepoppers · 2011-05-22 05:32:22

Hi, I'm trying to forward the internet to my ipod touch. I believe I've gotten the ad-hoc network itself to work properly, as the ipod claims to be connected, but it cannot use the internet. I've looked at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Internet_Share and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ad-hoc_networking but I can't exactly run the given commands on the ipod. =\ I don't really understand iptables and I've never successfully manually set up wireless before (x_x), thought it seems it's just this internet forwarding part that's really killing me.

Can anyone give me a push in the right direction, if not some working examples?

ewaller · 2011-05-22 06:04:44

I assume the machine you are forwarding through is an Arch box -- If you had made the subject more Arch centric, you may have had a better response

I've not tried this, but the approach I would take would be:

Start by trying to serve something from the Arch box and see if you can hit it from the ipod. I don't know what you can do on the ipod, but I know it has a web browser. So, if you set up a light weight browser, you could verify the operation of the ad-hoc wireless network.

Then, I would start on the forwarding. Here, I would try to use a laptop instead of an ipod to check out the ip forwarding. If that is not practical, maybe a virtual machine running on the host. This would work with a managed network, but I don't know about an ad-hoc net.

Okay, so maybe this wasn't a push as much as it is a nudge.

Edit: fixed parts of speech

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#1 2011-05-22 05:32:22

ad-hoc for ipod touch with internet

#2 2011-05-22 06:04:44

Re: ad-hoc for ipod touch with internet

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