Comment 14 for bug 389006

I was trying to share a connection just by creating an ad hoc connection with network-manager/dnsmasq and NAT but what happens is that dsnmasq, despite being a dhcp and dns server, it's used by network-manager to "create" the connection, but does not provide the DHCP service, even when I config /etc/dnsmasq.conf to do it.

if I run "sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq status" it gives me this output:
* Checking DNS forwarder and DHCP server dnsmasq * (not running)

So basically, my work around was to install dhcp3-server and configure /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf to make it work with the same IP that network-manager mysteriously (I've been trying to change this, anyone knows where???) chooses to create the connection with "10.42.43.1".