Sharing a cable modem connection with Brickhouse

Jul 08, '02 09:54:36AM

Contributed by: Greenfruit

I know that this should be easy in 10.2/Jaguar, but in the meantime ... I have a cable connection to the Internet and wanted to share my connection with another Mac on my network. I spent ages searching the net but couldn't find a clear description of how to get it going. I managed to figure it out with the help of the shareware program Brickhouse.

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This allows PCs or Macs to share an IP address with a Mac running OS X. After dcownloading and launching Brickhouse, click on the 'IP Sharing' tab and enable it.

On the Mac or PC that will share the connection, set up the networking thus:

That's it! This works for me anyway. Saved me buying Vicom Gateway. The only hassle is that you do have to re-enable IP sharing in Brickhouse after rebooting.

[Editor's note: Yes, this is a relatively straightforward tip ... but some people may not know about Brickhouse or its capabilities. It's also possible to do this with the built-in OS X networking tools, but it won't be quite so easy without a GUI tool like Brickhouse. You can also, of course, add a hardware router to the network to accomplish the same result.]

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