airport problem (maybe not?)

[Jeff Burton]

I don't have a base station.
I am using "Internet Sharing" in OSX on my G4 Tower(has airport card), 
and sharing with airport equipped computers is enabled.

The airport cards are talking to each other...
the IP routing table shows IP 10.0.2.0 as the destination for eth1.
ifcfg-eth1 is set to use dhcp. (BOOTPROTO=dhcp)
You cannot set an IP address with internet sharing, you can only enable 
encryption and set the channel

I don't want eth1(or eth0) up at boot, so I use 'ifup/ifdown' to 
start/stop the network, whether I am using a static IP connex at work, 
or (wanting to use ) airport at home.

I can connect to outside ftp servers with ncftp(on the ibook, which has 
a wireless conex with my G4), but after my password is accepted and I'm 
dropped into the base dir the server does not respond when i do "ls" 
and I am booted out.

I also cannot get any web browsers to work ....all can't find the web 
pages I type in.

As I mentioned something similar happened With the static IP as well.  
That somehow went away w/o me doing anything that I am aware of.  (I 
would like to know what happened..)

As well, I have gotten this to work in YDL 2.3 before with this same 
method(different install), but cannot now no matter what I do!

So it seems I am connected to the internet, but cannot interact with 
it....?

I am stuck.

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 04:39 PM, Greg Hamilton wrote:

> To connect to the base station:
> On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 07:57  AM, Jeff Burton wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm running YDL 2.3 and set up airport using the support doc on the 
>> YDL site.
>> it's on a 99 ibook.
>>
>> i am using OSX 10.2's version of a software base station.
>> (internet sharing)
>>
>> when I
>>
>> /sbin/ifup eth1, IP information is determined fine and a
>> netstat -rn
>> shows that eth1 is indeed up and running.
>>
>> However, when I try to connect to a website with mozilla or konquerer 
>> i get nothing...
>>
>> If i use ncftp I can connect to ftp servers, but once connected I 
>> can't  view the files.. an ls boots me out... I get "remote host was 
>> not responding, closing down the session" when i try to enter another 
>> ls into the prompt in ncftp.
>>
>>
>> I had a similar problem when using eth0 on a static IP but that 
>> mysteriously solved itself....
>>
>> The thing that I really don't get is that I did this a year ago on 
>> the same machine, also with YDL 2.3.  this is just a recent clean 
>> install...(I can't get YDL3 to go on this ibook...)
>>
>> help!
>>
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