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Port forwarding on iPhone?
Short answer
Until now (iOS 9.1) there has been no way to configure port forwarding in Personal Hotspot
Long Answer
Activating Personal Hotspot on an iOS device enables it's built-in NAT router. Other ...
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Can not share WiFi from Macbook Pro to other devices via Bluetooth PAN
I ran into the same problem when reverse tethering my Samsung phone (Android 5.1.1) to access the Internet connection on my Macbook Air (El Capitan), and found a successful solution:
Make sure your ...
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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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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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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 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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specific network settings for sharing internet connection
Your Macbook is bridging 2 different networks.
The first, from your router, would presumably be 192.168.1.0
That would make the router itself 192.168.1.1 & it will then hand out DHCP addresses ...
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Start/Stop Internet Sharing via Terminal in Yosemite without AppleScript
I stumbled across a seemingly stupidly easy way to enable/disable Internet Sharing the other day. There's just a bit of prep work to be done first.
Open System Preferences > Network
Highlight the ...
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Changing the range of addresses served to clients connected via Internet Sharing
This is specifically for Ethernet > Ethernet Sharing connections, rather than WiFi (it might work for WiFi but I haven't tested) - I thought the answer would best belong here, for Google.
Tested as ...
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How to create an infrastructure Wi-Fi network from Yosemite with no Internet connection?
In System Preferences, go to networking and connect your Mac to a wired network. Firewire or thunderbolt or ethernet (with or without an adapter) is needed to have a physical connection in the green ...
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Using Server 5.0.15 to share internet WITHOUT internet sharing
The newest OS X Server versions don't provide any tools to enable NAT/Routing in OS X.
To get NAT working without using Internet Sharing you have to use a pf rule and create a plist to enable ...
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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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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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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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Yosemite share internet via wifi
You can not bridge from WiFi to WiFi. You'll have to connect to the internet via a different port if you want to share the connection. I'm assuming the reason you don't connect to the network directly ...
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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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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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Is Ethernet sharing over WiFi from a Mac supposed to hand out 192.168.2.1 as the DNS server?
...when I check on my iPhone what DNS it hands out, it shows
192.168.2.1.
What you are seeing is completely normal.
To verify this, I setup Internet Sharing over WiFi with my Ethernet adapter as ...
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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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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 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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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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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 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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How is the hidden interface bridge100 working?
(This is isn't a correct answer, but just a starting point.)
Not mandatory
This bridge interface is not at all necessary. Here is the way to inactivate it:
Stop Internet Sharing through the GUI.
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Yosemite share internet via wifi
Please understand following.
You can not receive and transmit from same device (unless is it equipped that way). You Mac is not capable to do that, it is either or.
If you for example receive ...
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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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