[muglo] Re: Internet Sharing (was Telephone cord routing)
- From: Leith Peterson <leithriver7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:52:53 -0400
Thanks, Eric. I still have the original packaging from when I bought
the ethernet cable. It's a category 5e CrossOver Patch Cable, Rj45
Male/LAN.
I've done some moving around of stuff in my office, so it looks like
I'll now be connecting the G4 with the iBook G3, both using 10.3.9,
with the ethernet cable. However, I am nervous about one of the
computers going wireless for security reasons. It's not that much of
a hassle pulling in and out the telephone cords, so perhaps I'm
better off with the status quo for the time being.
Cheers,
Leith
>On 08/06/06, Leith Peterson <leithriver7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thanks for all the advice. Much appreciated. I've tried doing the
>> sharing, with my OS 10 G4 doing the initiating with my OS 9 iBook,
>> but I'm not able to make a connection properly. So far I've only
>> tried it with ethernet, though.
>
>The basic set-up is as follows:
>1. G4 is connected to phone line
>2. Mac OS X on G4 is configured to use the internet via dial-up
>2. iBook is connected via a CROSSOVER* ethernet cable to G4
>3. On your G4 Internet Sharing is turned ON in "System
>Preferences:Sharing:Internet" and you are sharing "To: Built-in
>Ethernet"
>4. The Mac OS 9 TCP/IP Control Panel on your iBook is configured to
>use the ETHERNET port and is using DHCP to obtain IP address
>
>To use internet on the iBook through the G4:
>1. Connect to internet on G4 by dialling into ISP
>2. With iBook connected to G4 with appropriate cross-over cable open
>up an internet application and start browsing the web
>3. When you're done browsing the web tell the G4 to disconnect from
>the internet.
>
>Troubleshooting: if the G4 is connected to the internet but the
>internet is not being shared open up the Internet preferences pane and
>make sure that sharing is turned on.
>
>FYI:
>
>* There are two types of ethernet cable of relevance:
>1. patch; or,
>2. crossover.
>
>Normally you use a 'patch' cable to connect a computer to a
>switch/router and you use a cross-over cable to connect
>switches/routers to each other or computers to each other. That said,
>newer Mac laptops (and maybe desktops) don't care what cable is used
>-- they can automatically use both types of cables.
>
>Note: your iBook is probably too old to use either type of cable
>interchangeably and you should be using a cross-over cable.
>
>You can tell if you have a 'patch' or a 'cross-over' cable. Put the
>connectors side-by-side. If the wire colours are in IDENTICAL
>positions you have a patch cable. If they are in different positions
>(i.e. "crossed over") then you have a cross-over cable.
>
>> I've had no problem doing ethernet sharing between two OS 9
>> computers, but between OS 10 and 9 is a new ballgame for me.
>
>What software were you using to share the internet (via ethernet)
>between the two OS 9 computers? IPNetShare (just remembered the
>name)... <http://www.sustworks.com/>... they apparently even have an
>OS X version, and one of their apps is free for OS X.
>
>> If I was able to make the two internal modems share one modem via the
>> OS 10 G4, would the iBook then be wireless in the sense of being
>> vulnerable to outside tampering, or would it be wireless in the sense
>> of just a connection between the two computers?
>
>Your iBook would _in theory_ be less vulnerable since it's going
>through a pretty restrictive DHCP server on the G4.
>
>HOWEVER, in practice you DO NOT have to worry about vulnerabilities,
>especially with
>Mac OS 9. Mac OS 9 is for all practical purposes INVULNERABLE to attacks!!!
>
>Eric.
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