Help Reverse Tether / Passthrough

[Interwebs]

There are several threads about this, but the answers seem to be phone specific, as it is a hardware thing. So here it is again for the Op M

My work has no WIFI, and I wanted to know if I could use my computer as an internet connection for my phone.

Computer has no wifi, no blue tooth, no airport etc.

Just a hard wired lan and usb ports.

Does this phone somehow support reverse tethering/pass-through

Spare me the "Why" I just want the how

 

[kanaida]

It's very possible, but I couldn't tell you the commands to do it.

What would have to happen is
a) a network driver or virtual device to redirect nic traffic would need to exist, possibly as an app on your phone.
b) you'd probably need linux on a laptop or something like that to forward incoming traffic to a physical nic somehow.

What is a more sane idea: spend $5 on a usb wifi adapter, pop it in a windows machine, in network adapters right click your "LAN" adapter. Share this internet connection. Then your wifi adapter would act like a wireless router. You'd probably have to set the channel or whatever in the adapter settings. It's also possible to simply bridge the 2 adapters together in windows. That's like connecting them both to a router, except your actual router would give your phone the ip address, whereas internet connection sharing makes your local machine the dhcp server that gives out ip's.

So in short, spend $5 enjoy wireless freedom.

 

[kanaida]

Original article

Configuring an Ad-Hoc Home WLAN

Every Wi-Fi adapter requires you to choose between infrastructure mode (called "access point" mode in some configuration tools) and ad-hoc ("peer to peer") mode. When using a wireless access point or router, set every wireless adapter for infrastructure mode. In this mode, wireless adapters automatically detect and set their WLAN channel number to match the access point (router).
Alternatively, set all wireless adapters to use ad hoc mode. When you enable this mode, you'll see a separate setting for channel number. All adapters on your ad hoc wireless LAN need matching channel numbers.

Ad-hoc home WLAN configurations work fine in homes with only a few computers situated fairly close to each other. You can also use this configuration as a fallback option if your access point or router breaks:

See also : Ad Hoc Wi-Fi Home Network Diagram
Configuring Software Internet Connection Sharing

As shown in the diagram, you can share an Internet connection across an ad hoc wireless network. To do this, designate one of your computers as the host (effectively a substitute for a router). That computer will keep the modem connection and must obviously be powered on whenever the network is in use. Microsoft Windows offers a feature called Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) that works with ad hoc WLANs.

Diagram