Hey all,
I'm turning to you all in an attempt to find a sollution. I know now
this can be done, but I can't find the proper information to get it
done. I wanted to ask this question on the Parallels forums, but as
they use those aggrivating graphic codes to validate that the person
registering is a human and not a spam bot, I'm locked out of
registering until I have sighted assistence. Lovely.
Here's what I need to do. Warning...this is highly technical and not
for the faint of heart. LOL.
I have Windows Vista running in a virtual machine under Parallels.
It works extremely well on a 2.0 GHZ MacBook with Tiger 10.4.9
I have to connect to networks via Airport.
What I need to happen, is over a shared networking configuration with
the VM, to have OSX forward inbound traffic on a specific port to the
virtual machine, which, I believe, will have an internal IP with the
Mac via Parallels in the Shared Networking option.
Ordinarily, one would accomplish this with Bridged networking, but
apparently bridged networking won't allow your router to see both
machines simultaneously over Airport, as Airport is incapable of
spoofing the Mac Address. It will only work via ethernet.
So, to restate, I need to forward inbound traffic that the router
sends to the Macbook to another computer that the Mac is sharing it's
internet connection with.
I know this can be done, as i've seen numerous references to it all
over the net. The closest I got was a note that one should use the
command line program ipfw to configure port forwarding with the Mac
OSX firewall, but nowhere can I figure out how exactly to accomplish
that.
I've been struggling with this for five days...so this realy is in
desperation. Thanks for anyone's expertise.
