On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 04:07 PM, the pickle wrote:
> Lemme just clarify a few points here and then I'll give you what I think
> ought to work...
>
> 1) You have a dialup connection that needs to be routed.
It's routed already. I need to set up some
> 2) You have Ethernet and modem connections on the iBook.
> 3) The "incoming" TCP/IP connection on the iBook is through the modem.
Yes. But my DNS is on an LCIII that is buried under a 17" monitor.
> So given the above, you should be able to set up DNS and DHCP on the
> iBook,
> along with NAT. (Since you're running X on there, most of this stuff is
> built-in already and free, even if it's not built in.) Hook the iBook
> to a
> hub and it should automagically get the rest of the Macs online as long
> as
> their TCP/IP is set to connect via Ethernet/DHCP.
Yes, this will work fine, until I take the iBook off the network to go
somewhere, leaving the rest of the network with no DNS, DHCP server or
intranet. I know it might not be a big issue to most ppl but I'm doing
this to learn how TCP/IP works and also as a dry run so I can set my up
ADSL over a LAN using a PCI PowerMac when my dad eventually gets it so I
don't have to share an ADSL modem. Obviously it won;t be such a cowboy
effort and all the services will all be on one machine but these awkward
things teach me the real grit about networking.
> Note: with a 56K connection, I wouldn't try too hard to use more than
> one
> Mac at a time to access Internet-based stuff. But you knew that
> already,
> right? :)
Actually we used to share one modem between 4 ppl in our house at
university and it was OK until someone downloaded something :). Then we
got ADSL....
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