HOWTO: Mac OS X Networking

[Jamie Maynard]

Yeah I was working on the basic assumption that people would be using one o=
f
the big three distributions (YDL, SUSIE or Mandrake).  In your Kernel confi=
g
you need to set up iptables and the TUN interface driver.  Both are found
under the networking options if I remember rightly.  You'll also need the
Gentoo iptables package.

Hope this helps a little.

Jamie


On 29/9/02 7:49 pm, "Brad House" <brad@mainstreetsoftworks.com> wrote:

> interesting ... no mention of needing  iptables installed,
> etc.  I guess this HOWTO assumes you're running YDL unmodified...
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> Personally, I'm using Gentoo-PPC and haven't gotten the
> tun driver working properly as of yet, I think I forgot
> an option in the kernel that it needed.  Wish I had a
> list of actual requirements.
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> -B
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> Jamie Maynard wrote:
>> First off I stand corrected and would like to apologise Mac OS X network=
ing
>> using sheep_net is pretty much broken with Mac OS X.  Personally since
>> Samuel sorted out this whole automatic networking set up thing with MOL =
I
>> haven't bothered with sheep_net.  I will say I do need more information =
on
>> the Pros and Cons of the Sheep_net driver if someone could e-mail me and=
 go
>> through them I would be grateful.
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>> OK using the automatic networking setup in MOL is very simple.  On the L=
inux
>> side all you need to do is make sure you have DHCPd installed.  You also
>> need to make sure you have a configured Ethernet port working (/dev/eth0=
) I
>> found that when I was trying to convince MOL Networking to work when I h=
ad
>> an un-configured Ethernet device it decided it didn't want to work.
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>> Once you have double checked that all that is installed you then need to
>> Start MOL in to Mac OS X (startmol --osx), let MOL boot Mac OS X normall=
y,
>> when its finished booting Log in as yourself (or preferably someone who =
has
>> administrator privileges).
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>> Once you have logged in you want to open the System Preferences Applicat=
ion
>> and then select the Network Preferences.  All your normal Mac OS X
>> networking adaptors will be gone.  Instead you should have a new one of =
en1.
>> All you want to do is simply set this to be configured by DHCP.  Once th=
at=B9s
>> done apply the changes and quit the System preferences.  You should be
>> assign an IP of 192.168.6.2 for Mac OS X and 192.168.6.1 for Linux.  If =
your
>> Linux box has connection to the Internet all Internet requested will be
>> routed to the Linux side and then on to where ever.  You should have ful=
l
>> internet access from Mac OS X.
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>> Hope this provides some help in setting up Networking with Mac OS X.
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>> Jamie
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