On May 25, 2005, at 2:24 AM, James Sedgwick wrote:
At 1:19 AM -0400 on 05/25/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 11:07 PM -0400 05/24/2005, James Sedgwick wrote:
Hi,
I have a rather pressing [1] need to share an internet connection
amongst a bunch of computers.
The WAN connection is dial up via the modem and the LAN
connection is ethernet and the OS on the gateway computer is
Panther (10.3.9).
If I configure the ethernet connection with a private IP address
like 192.16.2.1 I can get the internet sharing to work slick as
can be.
Unfortunately, the machines on the LAN all have public routable
addresses so I need to configure the ethernet connection on the
gateway computer with a public routable address and when I do
that, it stops sharing the connection with the LAN computers.
I can connect to the gateway computer via either the LAN or WAN
address from the LAN but I can not get out on the internet from
the LAN, or onto the LAN from out on the internet.
Does anyone know how to make this work and if so, wanna share?
Sounds like you're missing a few routing table entries.
Take a look at the docs and list archives at http://
www.sustworks.com/
I am not using a sustworks product, I am using Mac OS X built in
internet connection sharing, can you be a little more specific as
to exactly what I am missing/needing to add?
Regards, James
I don't think you'll be able to do what you are attempting with the
built-in software. At least, not without digging around in the Terminal.
The built in software will start a DHCP server and assign addresses
in the (usually) 192.168.2.x space. Also, IIRC it will uses a subnet
of 255.255.255.0 which means it will effectively ignore any IP
addresses that aren't in the 192.168.2.x space. Correct me if I'm
wrong, but that seems to be the extent of its pre-configured
capabilities. I'm sure you might be able to get it working by change
the configuration files in the Terminal, however, I don't know about
that.
You might want to take that hint from, Dan, above and checkout the
software from Sustainable Softworks <www.sustworks.com>. I've always
had great results from it when using my old IIci as a router.
IPNetRouterX is rather feature rich and might be capable of what you
are trying to do.
-Rob
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