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Hi All,
I've made a program supporting all originally supported wifi protocols as well as WPA/WPA2 enterprise protocols. This program can be used to set up connection with wireless networks using enterprise protocols.
What you need to do is to select proper protocol/authentification methods. Provide certification files if you have them. You can put certs files anywhere in your SD card. Then click OK.
You need to disable your wifi and re-enable it. Root is required.
Please visit my blog for more updates: http://fredzhung.blogspot.com/
** THIS IS NOT WELL TESTED, But works for Purdue University. (WPA ENTERPRISE WITH THAWTE_PREMIUM_SERVIER certs.)**
[UPDATE MAY-11] 1.0.2 RELEASE
ADDED SUPPORT FOR AD-HOC!
Added support for memorizing all configurations.
Need some test.
[EDIT] v0.2 RELEASE.
fixed a bug connecting to open network.
added support for anonymous indentity in EAP
added help/about
added input validation
changed icon
If this Wifi Helper doesn't work with your company's/school's wifi settings, please provide me your wifi setup so I can figure out what's wrong.
There seem to be a bug that first time run will hang. Close the program when the "force close" window pops up. Then run it again. Add the program to superuser list when asked.
This seem to be a bug for all applications requiring root access in android 1.5. I tested with terminal emulator and it has the same bug as well. Something is wrong with superuser program.
The app is uploaded to Market. Have fun!
Using this to access wifi on campus
Hi
I am a novice at all this root stuff so my questions is straightforward
a) If i buy a G1 (not rooted etc) and install this application from the market, i should be able to access my campus wifi? This is one reason why I am still using the iphone (unlocked on tmobile).
b) Is this likely to work even after the 1.5/cupcake transition that seems to be imminent?
Thanks
ps I am at LSU and here are some of the wifi details for the campus:
http://grok.lsu.edu/Article.aspx?articleId=8198
Hi, if you buy a g1 from store, you need to root it first before using this app. totorials for rooting your phone can be found on the sticky threads.
After you root your phone and use this app, you should be able to connect to your campus wifi. This is the purpose of this app.
May 11: 1.0.2 is released. Available in market
Hey zhang!
Great work, but i am having problems getting the ad-hoc to work.
It's been setup on my laptop and i have tried w/WPA & open to no avail.
The phone does not seem to detect the network.
I'm running 1.5 JF ADP.
Any thoughts as to what i might be doing wrong?
And thanks for the ad-hoc capability, been waiting on that one
Sean
Hi Sean,
I've been doing experiments with adhoc, I am not 100% sure adhoc will work. I will keep trying.
Great, great, great job!
I'm gonna buy the pro one, just as a "thank you"..
It seems it won't even detect my adhoc network
Hi. I use the free version (will buy it if it actually works) but I can't seem to even detect my adhoc networh. I use the ICS on XP laptop. I setup an open network with no encryption for the test but the G1 doesn't detect it (it sets it up and says it's unavailable, thus allowing me only to "forget" it). Do I have to change anything else on my device (for example the tiwlan.ini) so my device actually shows those elusive adhoc networks. Has anyone actually succeeded to setup properly an adhoc connection on G1 ever with any kind of software or is it like the UFO - we hear it exists but we've never actually seen it?
I cna't get it to work on my university's WPA2 Enterprise with a 'GTE CyberTrust Global Root' certificate (with extention cer).
I'm using a Vodafone Magic
I am also having a problem with a WPA2 enterprise setup.
It is a eduroam network.
On my computer I have entered the following setup in wicd:
encryption: PEAP with TKIP/MSCHAPv2
identity: my username
password: my password
In the wifi list (in the android system menu) the eduroam network shows as "Not in range, remembered"
I have another problem with the app itself: "Modify configurations" does not work. This makes it a hassle to try different encryption settings.
I know the network also works with PEAP with GTC, but don't know how to set that up.
Where did this go? It's no longer on the market. I can't find it anywhere!
Yeah, I was looking for this app and can't seem to find it anywhere. It disappeared. Does anyone have the apk?
Boogy
Try WiFi Buddy...free and works great.
All you had to do was go to his site...
http://fredzhung.blogspot.com/2009/05/download-for-wifi-helper.html
Hi,
Let's say I want to check, who's connected to my hotspot. I've searched for an application or terminal commands that can show this info, but didn't find anything. Is there such a thing?
Thanks,
William.
Good question, I'm interested as well.
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
i never tried to monitor wifi hotspot clients but i think these ways should work.
way 1:
goto terminal, type:
arp -a
this command displays all entries, since the wifi connection actually makes the phone a router, so all connected clients should have corresponding arp entry.
way 2:
goto market and download Network Discovery application, use it to scan the whole network. Also it provides port scanning function too.
(but .. this application usually crashes on my phone after scanning for long time)
Interesting, thanks. I'll test and reply.
Tested, even the basic "busybox arp" with no switches works. The result needs to go through grep or use "specify interface" switch to avoid showing the 3G data IP.
I suppose that access control has to be implemented in the kernel, so I won't mess with it - but now I have a script line to see, who's connected. Thanks
And one day someone could write a widget for it. At least modify the on/off widgets to show the number of connected clients.
Any more news on this? The network discovery app kind of worked, but it had to use wifi which disabled tethering.
I think there has to be a way to see who is connected to your hotspot at one time without disabling anything.
The Palm Pre Plus on Verizon does this automatically. There are a lot of features that phone has that I wish android would impliment...Man it would have been nice if google had bought palm
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Tested, even the basic "busybox arp" with no switches works.
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Is that news?
You want an app/widget for that? There is none. I've turned to the creator of the "hotspot widget" and asked him to implement counter for connected clients (which should good enough for anything I can think of), but I got no answer. I also tried to find any open-source code for such widget to modify and add the functionality, but didn't find any.
The older Eclair CM build had such app for manual control, showing MACs of connected clients.
I dont think the stock froyo tethering implements this but the wired/wireless tether apps included in 2.1 roms has the function, mac address filtering too =D
now a day i m in hostle and new to android
in hostle i have to use proxy server over wifi
i have searched but could not find a better solution
if any one using it plzzzzzzzzzzzz help me
have used trans proxy for this there is a requirement for iptables/netfilter and rooted device i have rooted the g1 but i dont know how to use iptables/netfilter
suugest me any rom which gives wifi option in contex menu or support iptables/netfilter
why dont you use encrypted VPN instead?
gyugyujol said:
why dont you use encrypted VPN instead?
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wht is that how to use it????
well..
it is in the Wireless settings section. i guess you should use L2 IPSec.
briefly: have to set up a VPN server/connection point at home or wherever, and you'll connect to that from anywhere given that there's an open outbound port to the internet where you are currently. than a connection will be built up creating a "tunnel" through which your packets will be transferred to the VPN host where itt could be routed and NAT-ed to the internet unrestricted.
adding IPSec or other methods of encryptions will make your connection secure.
i've never tried it on my phone but since its based on linux it must be the same way as at desktop system.
you should check documents and howtos on the internet and check for apps at Market if the androids builtin is not satisfying!
gyugyujol said:
well..
it is in the Wireless settings section. i guess you should use L2 IPSec.
briefly: have to set up a VPN server/connection point at home or wherever, and you'll connect to that from anywhere given that there's an open outbound port to the internet where you are currently. than a connection will be built up creating a "tunnel" through which your packets will be transferred to the VPN host where itt could be routed and NAT-ed to the internet unrestricted.
adding IPSec or other methods of encryptions will make your connection secure.
i've never tried it on my phone but since its based on linux it must be the same way as at desktop system.
you should check documents and howtos on the internet and check for apps at Market if the androids builtin is not satisfying!
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i am unble to use that
i dont know how to set all these things
Use Froyo by Laszlo it supports proxy over wifi
After a few evenings of searching, reading and testing, I finally found a solution for setting up a reverse-tether connection between my Droid 3 and my Ubuntu box over a USB cable, which I can use to download apps and app updates from Google Play without eating up my mobile data credit. And since it seems to me that complete and clear explanations of how to do this with USB and Ubuntu are not available anywhere, I want to detail here all the steps of my connection setup process, in a way that will hopefully be accessible to most users of Android and Ubuntu. So here goes:
Prerequisites:
- a PC that is connected to the Internet and running Ubuntu, where you have root access and a free USB port
- a rooted Android device (in my case the Motorola Droid 3) with a SIM and an active mobile subscription
- a USB cable (I have the one that came with the phone).
Setup:
#1. Disconnect your Android device's data connection from your mobile carrier by touching the corresponding icon in the notifications tray (2 parallel vertical arrows pointing in opposite directions) or by switching your phone to Airplane Mode.
#2. Launch the Terminal emulator app on your Android device and enter this command:
ifconfig
You should get a response that shows only one network interface, named "lo" or "lo0" or something like that, with an information field that says "inet addr:127.0.0.1". This is the local loopback connection. We will not be using it - just know that it's always there in responses to "ifconfig" and ignore it from now on.
#3. Re-enable your Android device's data connection by reversing what you did at #1. Go back to the Terminal and do another
ifconfig
This time, in addition to the "lo" interface, you should see another interface that is used to communicate with the Internet through your mobile carrier. For me this interface is called "ppp0"; you may have something else, but just remember what it is because you will have to use it later wherever you see me use ppp0 in the commands below.
#4. Now connect your Android device to your Ubuntu PC using the USB cable. Access the USB connection notification in your Android notifications tray and select "PC Mode" as your USB Mode. (If you don't have this option, then I don't know what to say, you will probably have to try them all, but in that case I wouldn't start with the "Mass storage" option - that's the least likely one to work for this.)
#5. Still on the Android, open Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Tethering & Mobile Hotspot and enable "USB tethering". You should get a second, green USB icon on your status bar after tethering is enabled.
#6. Go back to the Terminal app on your Android device and do yet another
ifconfig
This time you should receive information for 3 network interfaces: in addition to "lo" and "ppp0" you should now see a new interface that corresponds to your USB. For me it's called "gether0"; remember what yours is and use it wherever I use gether0 in the commands below.
Also, look at the "inet addr:" specification of your gether0 interface and remember this IP address because we will need it later. (My USB tether interface always gets the same IP address - 192.168.42.129 - so this is what I will be using in my example commands below.)
#7. Now let's look at the PC's network interfaces. Open a terminal emulator (I use Ctrl-Alt-T to do this; depending on what launchers, shortcuts or desktop environments you have, you may need to find it in a menu or do something else to get to it) and type
ifconfig
This response depends a lot on how your PC is set up, but generally I'd expect to see at least a "lo" (local loopback) interface, a "usb0" interface, one or more "eth0", "eth1" etc. interfaces and maybe a "ppp0" interface. The "ppp0" and "eth0" type interfaces will be for your PC's Internet connection and the "usb0" interface will correspond to the USB cable connecting you to the Android device. If you have a "ppp0", that's probably the one you should use in all setup commands to be run on the PC where I will use ppp0. Otherwise if you only have "lo", "usb0" and "eth0", your PC's Internet is probably on "eth0", so use that one in place of my ppp0 in commands run on the PC. (If you have any other combinations without a "ppp0", I don't know what to suggest except try them all one by one, everything you have besides "lo" and "usb0".)
#8. Back to the Android device. What we want here is for the ppp0 interface to remain enabled - because that's the only way the app store will agree to download any apps - but all our Internet communication to actually go through the gether0 interface, i.e. through the USB tether. To do this, we need to change the default route Android apps use to send data, namely to delete the default route that points to ppp0 and add a new default route that points to gether0 and that uses as a gateway the IP address of the Ubuntu PC (an address we will set up on the PC at the end of this process). So run these commands in the Terminal on the Android:
su
route del default
route add default gw 192.168.42.1 dev gether0
setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8
Notice that the gateway IP address we will be using is made up of the first 3 numbers from our USB tether interface's IP from step #6, followed by a ".1" instead of whatever the 4th group was in the original IP.
#9. On the PC we want to set up standard Internet connection sharing between usb0 and ppp0 according to the instructions from the Ubuntu manual, so we will run these commands in the terminal window:
sudo su -
(enter your password here to get root access and then do 5 more lines)
iptables -A FORWARD -o ppp0 -i usb0 -s 192.168.42.0/24 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -F POSTROUTING
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
Here again you can see we're using the first 3 numbers from the USB tether interface's IP, but adding a ".0" and a "/24" at the end to specify an entire class of IPs we're going to accept packets from over the USB, a class that includes our Android's actual IP, 192.168.42.129. (We could probably just use that single IP without a "/24", but whatever, this class stuff is usually the way it's done.)
#10. Finally, we will set our PC's usb0 interface IP to the gateway IP we already told the Android to send everything to, i.e. 192.168.42.1, after which we need to quickly check that the connection is working and jump right into Google Play to download some apps. I say "quickly" because in my case, for whatever reason, after I set the gateway IP on the PC I can only leave the connection unused for about 1 minute before it drops on its own. So don't wait too much after #10.1 to do the rest:
#10.1. Enter this into your PC's terminal:
ip addr add 192.168.42.1/24 dev usb0
#10.2. Check that the connection is up by entering this into your Android's terminal first:
ping -c 3 google.com
If you get 3 responses from Google, you're all set to launch Google Play and download some apps:victory:. If there's no response, go back to #10.1 and try again.
Another indication that the PC has dropped the connection is that you get a notification popup on the PC that says "Wired network/ Disconnected". That tells you you need to jump back to #10.1 to get the USB link working again.
Also, you will know you need to do this again if you find Google Play is suddenly refusing to load apps or pages even though it was loading them before - you probably waited too long between clicks and allowed the connection to drop.
#11. To reset all the connections to normal when you're done, make sure to
#11.A. Go to Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Tethering & Mobile Hotspot and disable "USB tethering" before you unplug the USB cable from either device, otherwise the gether0 interface may remain active and interfere with your ability to get back your data link to your mobile carrier.
#11.B. Do steps #1 and #3 again to get your Android to automatically re-establish the proper settings for the link to your mobile carrier.
Final remarks:
- In order to streamline this process, especially steps #8-#10, you should probably put these commands and your specific interface names and IP addresses in some scripts - one on the PC, one on the Android device - that you can then launch more easily. I'm a newbie at both Ubuntu and Android, so I have to do some more searching to figure out how to do this properly.
- Keeping the connection up even if you're idle - e.g. while reading app descriptions and deciding what to download - is probably a matter of sending some dummy packets periodically through the USB, which would probably involve another script running in the background - again something I haven't taken the time to figure out how to set up yet.
- Anytime you get paranoid about whether the apps are being downloaded through the USB cable or your mobile data plan, go to your Android terminal and check whether your default network route is still pointing to your gateway PC by running:
route
This will show you all the routes that are configured on your Android. The last line in the table should say "default", then "192.168.42.1" and end with "gether0". This means the data is still going through the USB and not eating up your mobile data credit.
Enjoy!
It seems to work, but I'm still not sure whether my phone uses my computer's internet connection or my 3G. Upon executing:
Code:
busybox route
I get a lot of lines instead of just "192.168.42.1" ended with "rndis0" (this is how its named on my device) though this "192.168.42.1" exists.
leledumbo said:
It seems to work, but I'm still not sure whether my phone uses my computer's internet connection or my 3G.
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The simple way I confirm it is by looking at the 3G icon at the top: during normal usage the two arrows in the icon light up depending on whether I'm transmitting or receiving or both; when I'm reverse-tethered they never light up at all.
I get a lot of lines instead of just "192.168.42.1" ended with "rndis0" (this is how its named on my device) though this "192.168.42.1" exists.
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Well, in principle you should only need to care about the "default" line, but if by any chance you have some rule in that table that specifies a non-default route for exactly the websites you're trying to access in all this and that rule happens to specify a different interface than "rndis0", then yes - you might be using your mobile data plan after all. But I wouldn't bet on it. I have a few routes on there, but I think they're just related to services my carrier is offering at some specific IPs it has.
If you can't confirm the 3G is being bypassed by looking at the icon and if you can't spare the traffic to do a direct consumption test (query how much traffic is left/spent, use some more traffic through this setup, query again and compare), then the only other way to make sure that I can think of is to clean up the whole routing table ("route del" everything) and leave only the "default" rule from the instructions above. Then there really won't be any other path for your network packets to take but through the USB. But then you have to hope the routing table will get rebuilt as it was after you reset everything. Or you could just write down all the rules you had before so you can reconfigure them if they don't get re-created automatically at reset.
In fact - what am I talking about? - there's another way you can make sure your Android is really trying to go through the USB to get to the Internet: when you do step #10.1 on the PC just set up a wrong gateway IP, for example 192.1.1.1. If your Android fails to open any webpages or the app store and then if you do #10.1 properly it starts working (again), then it's clear that it's trying to go through the USB cable and isn't using any alternate route.
Weird, the method doesn't work anymore for the subsequent trials. I'll try rebooting the phone.
Works for Windows too
I mixed the instructions found in this thread with another thread here in xda and it worked well under Windows 7.
Thank you for the excelent guide!
donjoe0 said:
After a few evenings of searching, reading and testing, I finally found a solution for setting up a reverse-tether connection between my Droid 3 and my Ubuntu box over a USB cable, which I can use to download apps and app updates from Google Play without eating up my mobile data credit. And since it seems to me that complete and clear explanations of how to do this with USB and Ubuntu are not available anywhere, I want to detail here all the steps of my connection setup process, in a way that will hopefully be accessible to most users of Android and Ubuntu. So here goes:
[guide goes here, edited quote]
Enjoy!
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So I tried everything on a LG Phoenix running Kitkat and no go. All the commands go through except the ping command. Any suggestions?
AndrMatr said:
So I tried everything on a LG Phoenix running Kitkat and no go. All the commands go through except the ping command. Any suggestions?
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All I can say is this method continued to work for me pretty much the same as described when I switched to KitKat on an ASUS Padfone 2 with two minor exceptions:
- busybox was no longer set up to be invoked automatically on this other custom ROM so I had to prefix some commands with "busybox " (e.g. the "route" commands)
- my USB tether connection is now named "rndis0" instead of "gether0"; I had to fiddle around a bit with the "netcfg" command to figure that out.
Ok so a while back I discovered that after you gain root access to the BIONIC (probably works with other too. idk...) you can make changes to iptables. For those who don't know what that is: It's a built in firewall that handles packets as they come in and leave your phone. This is pretty much the defacto standard for any Linux machine to date (please enlighten me if I'm wrong). Anyhow, after discovering this I came up with an idea to see if I could pipe my hotspot directly into my openvpn tunnel. Well, after a bit of web research on how iptables works I was able to get it up and running. HOWEVER I'm not an expert at this yet, and my config definitely has a flaw in the fact that I leave the phone completely vulnerable on the "rmnetX" interface, as I completely flush the old tables to add mine, leavign the firewall WIDE OPEN. I'll post a fix as soon as I can come up with one. In the mean time here's the steps to take to get your phone to be a hotspot access point to your openvpn network!
**PHONE MUST HAVE ROOT!!!!***
1) Follow along and setup an OpenVPN server http://openvpn.net/howto.html
2) Install "OpenVPN Installer" and "OpenVPN settings" from Google Play marketplace (both are free)
3) Run OpenVPN Installer and install OpenVPN client to your phone. The defaults should be fine.
4) Create a folder called "openvpn" ont he root of your INTERNAL sdcard. IE "/sdcard/openvpn
5) Copy your client keys that you made during your OpenVPN setup to your phone into the /sdcard/openvpn directory (client.crt, client.key, ca.crt, and ta.key)
6) Copy over the client.conf file as well. You will need to tweek this a bit to call your certs from the /sdcard/openvpn file as well as putting in the public IP to connect to. Keep in mind if you are doing this at home you will need to PAT/NAT this connection accross your firewall on udp port 1194.
7)Ok, at this point you just want to make sure your OpenVPN connection works. So open up OpenVPN settings and try and connect to your VPN, if you can connect and brows to shares inside your network over the 4g connection EXCELENT! MOVE ON! If not refer to the OpenVPN HOW TO!!!
8) After that's done you neet to get the Verizon HotSpot Tether working, There's a hack for it on the web. Google "BIONIC Hotspot SQLite Editor"... in the mean time I'll try and walk you through it.
a) get SQLite Editor from Google Play
b) open it and scroll down to "Settings Storage" (the one with the hammer icon), open "settings.db", then click settings. You should see a long list of database entries. Click the magnifying glass and under "Filter Value" type "check".
c) you should then see 4 results, one being "entitlement_check". Long press on the "1" next to "entitlement_check". Click "Edit Field" and change the "1" to a "0".
d) Reboot and try running the stock "Hotspot" app, it should work now!
9) Run the Hotspot app and confirm it works properly and can connect clients.
10) After you have a working Hotspot and a work OpenVPN you can then start the iptables magic!!!
**This is fairly safe, no need to worry about bricking just reboot if you screw up!***
11) Download and install "Android Terminal Emulator" and run it.
12) at the prompt type in "su" to gain super user access
13) you should now be at a root shell ("#") NOT $
14) at the prompt(#) type this: iptables -S <-This shows you the entire iptables rules, as you can see it's crazy complicated!
15) Run OpenVPN and Hotspot and confirm both are connected and runnign before issuing rule changes in iptables. So run both applications now.
16) Confirm VPN is connected and Hotspot is runnign by issuing the command "busybox ifconfig". If your VPN is up you will have a "tun0" interface and if the Hotspot is up there should be a "wlan1" interface.
17) If both are up then all you need to do in order to give hotspot clients access to your VPN resources is this:
iptables -F
iptables -X
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -t nat -X
iptables -t mangle -F
iptables -t mangle -X
iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i tun0 -o wlan1 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i wlan1 -o tun0 -m state --state INVALID -j DROP
iptables -A FORWARD -i wlan1 -o tun0 -j ACCEPT
The first 10 commands flush your old iptables, and the last 3 commands masqarade your wlan1 interface to your tun0 interface, funneling your clients down the VPN. Keep in mind that you will have to allow this via your openvpn server.conf file. See HOWTO For OpenVPN.
Enjoy!!!
I am confused and would like to know why we want net on VPN if we have WiFi hack for a router
Could Could we link a com port on bochs emulated windows xp?
With the WiFi hack edit or tether for root user you can use this IP addr add like below to add router capabilities, or change wlan0 to your phone's 4g rmnet or tun0 to add router to any connection, can you tell us what we would use VPN for give an example
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ip addr add 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0
http://www.filedropper.com/comgooglecodeandroidwifitether-1
I use this apk to wifi tether, same as wifi router, will probably need root to use it I am not sure, but you dont need to type: ip addr add 192168.1.0/24 dev wlan0, I do just because it helps make good connections for most wifi devices
This will make your WiFi capable of being used as a router, you still need root WiFi tether or the hotspot hack like you posted but this makes wlan0 a router
I mainly use this to share files that I have on my NAS at home with friends at work. First I create a hot spot, then I connect my VPN, then I masquerade the traffic. On the server side my openvpn configuration is set up so that it trusts a specific subnet coming from behind the openvpn host (IE my phone's hotspot subnet) This provides a nice and easy means of giving friends controlled access via your mobile hotspot without needing to generate RSA keys for each of your friends. Another thing I like to use it for is when I travel I just set it up in the corner and watch movies from home on my laptop over the VPN through the hotspot.
-Ed
DroidisLINUX said:
I am confused and would like to know why we want net on VPN if we have WiFi hack for a router
Could Could we link a com port on bochs emulated windows xp?
With the WiFi hack edit or tether for root user you can use this IP addr add like below to add router capabilities, or change wlan0 to your phone's 4g rmnet or tun0 to add router to any connection, can you tell us what we would use VPN for give an example
su
ip addr add 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0
http://www.filedropper.com/comgooglecodeandroidwifitether-1
I use this apk to wifi tether, same as wifi router, will probably need root to use it I am not sure, but you dont need to type: ip addr add 192168.1.0/24 dev wlan0, I do just because it helps make good connections for most wifi devices
This will make your WiFi capable of being used as a router, you still need root WiFi tether or the hotspot hack like you posted but this makes wlan0 a router
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edw00rd said:
I mainly use this to share files that I have on my NAS at home with friends at work. First I create a hot spot, then I connect my VPN, then I masquerade the traffic. On the server side my openvpn configuration is set up so that it trusts a specific subnet coming from behind the openvpn host (IE my phone's hotspot subnet) This provides a nice and easy means of giving friends controlled access via your mobile hotspot without needing to generate RSA keys for each of your friends. Another thing I like to use it for is when I travel I just set it up in the corner and watch movies from home on my laptop over the VPN through the hotspot.
-Ed
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Or you could get Qloud Media Server, and be able to assign access to different sets of folders in your home network using username/passwords. And it costs $3.00 or $0.00 if you have a getjar pass.
This is a really cool idea, thanks for sharing.
On a somewhat unrelated note, is the VirtualBox method still the preferred means of rooting a Bionic on 4.1.2 (98.72.22)? Trying to figure out how easily I can root a friend's phone but I can't really find any consolidated source of up-to-date information. =\
TweakerL said:
Or you could get Qloud Media Server, and be able to assign access to different sets of folders in your home network using username/passwords. And it costs $3.00 or $0.00 if you have a getjar pass.
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I think you might be confusing folder access/authentication with network access/authentication. The VPN would give you access to your network remotely via 4g/3g and yes i suppose you could use the Qloud Media Server to provide access to folders. I'm not really sure what that is, never used it but it sounds like something that provides a service via 3rd party to get access to you remotely. The third party is avoided all together witht he VPN solution. You don't have to give any sort of ingress access to any third party app. You're phone will think it's part of your home network. Also someone asked about having network bridged when you have a wifi hack... it would be purely up to you weather or not you'd want your HTTP traffic to go through the VPN or not... that's different than what I'm providing here. This is strictly for using your phone as a WiFi hotspot router that forwards all of your traffic to your VPN connection (IE your house) so that connected wifi clients would be accessable via your home network and visa versa. You could also just make a VPN hotspot and generate RSA keys for each host connecting to the hotspot.... your choice. Mine works better in a way that I maintain constant view over every device including the phone that is acting as the VPN mifi hotspot.:silly:
how to undo this? i cant connect my hotspot.