Xavier de C�rdenas wrote:

> Thank you to everyone who replied to my posting.
> 
> I am truly a newbie at networking and OS X, but I was finally able to get
> Sharity to work by creating a new network port under system preferences. I
> am not sure if this is described any where in the documentation. (BTW
> excellent program, my respects to the developers)
> 
> For the sake of another newbie needing help with this, the steps I took
> were:
> 
> 1. Open the System Preferences from the dock
> 2. Click on Network and go to the "TCP/IP" tab
> 3. Click on the drop down menu "Show: Active Network Ports"
> 4. Since I connect to the internet using a DSL modem I had 2 port
> configurations, one for Internal Modem and another for Built-in Ethernet
> (this is what connects to the external modem) To use Sharity I needed to
> assign a fixed IP, so I created a third Port Configuration which I named
> "LAN" by clicking new.
> 5. Once a new configuration is created select it from the drop down menu.
> This will bring you to the TCP/IP tab again. Here I selected Configure
> Manually from the drop down.
> 6. I entered a unique IP Address and the Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
> 
> I hope this helps. If someone has a better suggestion please let me know.

Interesting, thanks!!

>From a Unix perspective, you have created an alias for your ethernet port
with a second IP address. This makes sure that Sharity will always see at
least one interface when it asks the operating system for the network
configuration.

Regards, Christian.

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Dipl.-Ing. Christian Starkjohann
Objective Development
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