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Share wireless Internet connection with an Xbox
Authored by: glusk on Nov 15, '04 10:16:22PM

I have a Cisco ATA from Vonage that refuses to accept a DHCP offer from OS X internet sharing over ethernet. This was with Jaguar and Panther, clean installations. Tried with iBook and PowerBook. I watch with Ethereal and see the ATA make a request and see the Mac make an offer, but the ATA doesn't seem to accept it.

The ATA works great (I'm very pleased with Vonage and the Cisco ATA) behind a standard consumer router. But it'd be nice to share my wireless internet connection while in a hotel room.

Any ideas??



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Share wireless Internet connection with Vonage
Authored by: garella on Dec 01, '04 01:26:44AM

I have the same problem getting a Vonage box (Cisco ATA 186) to get an IP from my iBook in 10.3.6. If you've figured it out, let me know. If not, here's my story in case there's something useful there...

I'm sharing the Airport connection (Airport Express) and have the ATA plugged into built-in ethernet. The ATA's light blinks slowly, indicating it's trying, but no luck. If I unplug it and plug in my Linksys router, it goes right on line -- and if I plug the ATA into the router, shazam! I get a dial tone. But the whole idea here was to avoid carrying the router around. It's a mystery to me why the ATA can't get an IP number on its own.

If you pick up the handset, press the button on the ATA and dial 21#, you will hear the IP number. (details on all this at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/gatecont/ps514/products_administration_guide_book09186a00800c496e.html) When I connect directly, it reports 0.0.0.0, which means I can't even get to the ATA's web admin page to tell it to use IP 192.168.0.2, which I think is what the Mac wants it to be.

I've tried with a crossover cable and a straight one, stopped and started internet sharing, turned off the firewall, cycled the ATA on and off, etc and still no luck. I'm wondering if this has something to do with port forwarding -- I read somewhere that you have to forward UDP 5060-5061, 10000-20000 to the client IP (though since I can't get it to pick up an IP, this wouldn't be possible, I suppose).

I read (at http://www.geeksrus.com/archives/cat_vonage.html) that Vonage will upgrade you to a Motorola V1000 ATA for around $60. That one has two ethernet ports so you can put it between the router and the modem (so I could use my Airport Express, which has no wired ethernet connections) but I want to use sharing so I can make calls from other wifi hotspots.

Advice welcomed from all quarters...



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Share wireless Internet connection with Vonage
Authored by: garella on Dec 01, '04 01:51:10AM

Sorry, that should have been 192.168.2.x as has been pointed out in various posts in this thread. Anyway, from what I read in the Cisco manual, I don't think you could change if even if you could get to the web config page.



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