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Troubleshooting Internet Sharing Options Greyed Out on macOS Ventura (13.3.1)
You can't change the options if Sharing is on.
In your screenshot, the selected port must be scrolled out of sight.
For you to edit those preferences, you have to do the process of choosing the input ...
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Mac connects to iPhone hotspot but no internet
I got the same issue and solved it differently.
In my MacBook, I had the DNS server setup to point to Google's public DNS IP (8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4), I simply deleted those registers and left the default....
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How to forward traffic from one machine to another with `pfctl`?
This is how I got it to work.
My example uses three hosts on my network (10.10.0.0/16):
10.10.10.10 = Linux client
10.10.6.237 = Mac "real server" providing a service on port 3000
10.10.1.200 = Mac "...
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Show list of clients of wifi hotspot Mac OS X
I get the list using arp command at Terminal.
first, get your WiFi sharing interface name, I get it by typing ifconfig on terminal.
It should be something like bridgexxx, for me, it's bridge100
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Can't switch on Wi Fi after internet sharing stops due to VPN dropout
I've seen this issue before. I'm not sure why this happens, but have found that totally removing your Wi-Fi service, restarting your Mac, and adding your Wi-Fi service back again will resolve the ...
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How to use mac as a full router with DHCP, DNS, Port Fowarding etc.?
Simple...yeah right....
Note: Someone please edit this to include only default commands
Covered in this answer
DHCP (Range, reservations, mask, router, lease time)
DNS
Port Forwarding
Setup
Text ...
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How can I combine internet from two sources on my macbook and get increased speed?
What you're referring to is called Internet Bonding.
You can't simply turn on two different Internet connections and have everything work - you need an intermediary whether it be a dedicated router ...
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Mac connects to iPhone hotspot but no internet
After hours of experimenting, and a long and pointless call to my network operator, I finally managed to fix it... by deleting the phone from the list of known wifi networks on the MacBook, and ...
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Internet sharing has stopped working after Updating macOS from Ventura 13.0 to Ventura 13.0.1
I had the same issue.
I own a MBP M1 and two iPhone (SE 2016 and 12pro).
I use the internet sharing while at my office.
I solved it out like this:
disable AirDrop (either in System Settings or in the ...
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Start/stop internet sharing from a script?
I had far better results (for an already configured sharing setup) on 10.11.6 with the simple variations...
sudo launchctl start com.apple.NetworkSharing
and
sudo launchctl stop com.apple....
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Routing traffic back and forth through a Mac mini server with 2 network interfaces
It should be possible to create a bridge with en0 and en2 and enable net.inet.ip.forwarding to get rid of all routing problems. The bridge acts more or less as another switch between en0 and en2.
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Internet Sharing Over Ethernet
Your first screenshot shows (I think) that you have configured Computer #1 with a manually entered IP address of 192.168.70.1. It's been a while since I played with this, but I dug into some of the ...
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Internet sharing via Thunderbolt Cable?
It is possible to share Internet from Ethernet to Thunderbolt!
Your gateway (iMac) Internet Sharing settings are ok:
Share your connection from: Ethernet > to computers using: Thunderbolt bridge
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Are there two separate network systems on a Mac? One that is controlled through the GUI in OS X, and one that is controlled through the Terminal?
There is only one set of network interfaces on any Mac. But they have two different interfaces to manage them with different level of functions:
a CLI (Command Line Interface),
a GUI (Graphical User ...
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Does Apple Remote Desktop connect to computers over the internet?
Back To My Mac is no longer available in macOS Catalina.
I tried using Apple Remote Desktop and the iCloud/Back To My Mac solution proposed here to remotely connect to my Mac Pro from outside of our ...
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Show Active Connections to "Internet Sharing"
In Big Sur (and probably for a few versions prior), there no longer appears to be any log entry written to /var/log/system.log by default, at least for lease renewals.
The arp method in this answer is ...
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Mac connects to iPhone hotspot but no internet
Many cellular networks are IPv6 only, so you need to enable that for macOS to work with those specific connections.
Following this guide on self assigned IP addresses - pay attention to the 4th step.
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Internet Sharing Over Ethernet
Ashley's answer is very good.
Alternatively (if there are issues putting both networks in the 192.168.61.xxx range from your router), you can try choosing an address outside the dhcp range of your ...
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Start/stop internet sharing from a script?
Definitive workaround to wifi-sharing constant breaking down in MacosX
I have found a system that finally works and when, less frequently wifi sharing breaks, it manages to recover it automatically ...
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Internet sharing without DHCP
From the bootpd man page:
For each of the properties dhcp_enabled, bootp_enabled,
old_netboot_enabled,
netboot_enabled, and relay_enabled, the corresponding service can be enabled or
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Start/Stop Internet Sharing via Terminal in Yosemite without AppleScript
I did the following:
Duplicate the "Automatic" location. I gave the duplicated the name "Shared".
On the "Shared" location, rename the Ethernet interface to "Shared Ethernet".
Configure the shared ...
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Can not share WiFi from Macbook Pro to other devices via Bluetooth PAN
I followed the instructions above but the IP address 192.168.1.14 did not work for me.
I did however find a solution. While the PAN interface was connected, I ran ifconfig in terminal. There was ...
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connecting my laptop to iPhone HotSpot using Ethernet adapter
Just for grins and giggles, I thought I'd give this a try and I could not get it to work.
Hardware was an iPhone 8 running iOS 13.3, Apple Lightning to USB 3 camera adapter, power from a third party ...
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connecting my laptop to iPhone HotSpot using Ethernet adapter
How to Use Your iPhone’s Personal Hotspot to Tether on Windows and macOS
First of all: not every cellular carrier includes this feature in every plan. If your cellular data plan doesn’t allow for ...
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Cannot share my internet connection via Wi-Fi from my Mac
I was desperate to get internet sharing going on my mac as, at the moment, it is my only router. It was going fine and suddenly stopped, and I hadn't updated recently. I ran the WirelessDiagnostic ...
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"Internet Sharing" via "Ethernet" is not working
I don't know if this will work universally, however I solved the problem in the following way.
On Mac OS X Machine
Ethernet -> Configure IP v4 OFF
Wifi connected to AP with relevant settings
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WiFi hotspot without internet provider knowing?
Any unencrypted HTTP packets (web sites or even streaming commercial content like music) would by default contain the User Agent corresponding to the device and browser/app, which would make it easy ...
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iMac WiFi Hotspot not Working
You might have been sharing your connection from a wrong connection. For example, if you are connected via ethernet, and share it over wifi, you have to select the right ethernet port (some computers ...
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When using Internet Sharing is there any danger of IP address conflicts with the parent network?
In general yes and no. With your example of Thunderbolt in and WiFi sharing it's more likely you are in the "no" camp.
The yes is you are bridging more than one device in on the network connection ...
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Redirect Local Port through bridge to Internet Shared static IP
The proper command to redirect http traffic in your case is:
echo "rdr on $ext inet proto tcp from any to 10.0.0.36 port = 80 -> 192.168.2.34 port 80" | sudo pfctl -a com.apple/HTTP -f -
With $...
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