HOWTO: Mac OS X Networking

[christophe barbé]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 08:29:23PM +0200, Jamie Maynard wrote:
> Yeah I was working on the basic assumption that people would be using one of
> the big three distributions (YDL, SUSIE or Mandrake).  In your Kernel config
> 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.

Could you please describe the iptables/TUN config.

Thanks,
Christophe

> 
> 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...
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > -B
> > 
> > Jamie Maynard wrote:
> >> First off I stand corrected and would like to apologise Mac OS X networking
> >> 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.
> >> 
> >> OK using the automatic networking setup in MOL is very simple.  On the Linux
> >> 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 had
> >> an un-configured Ethernet device it decided it didn't want to work.
> >> 
> >> 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 normally,
> >> when its finished booting Log in as yourself (or preferably someone who has
> >> administrator privileges).
> >> 
> >> Once you have logged in you want to open the System Preferences Application
> >> 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 that?s
> >> 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 full
> >> internet access from Mac OS X.
> >> 
> >> Hope this provides some help in setting up Networking with Mac OS X.
> >> 
> >> Jamie
> >> 
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