Barnacle Wifi Tether is a combination of three tools to provide wifi tethering capability on an Android phone. Those three tools are:
- NAT,
- DHCP server, and
- WLAN ad-hoc setup.
In principle, Barnacle Wifi Tether is equivalent to the android-wifi-tether project. However, unlike android-wifi-tether, it does not depend on NETFILTER support in the kernel and thus does not require custom kernel on such phones as Nexus One or Motorola Droid/Milestone. read more