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[Laila Berri]

Youcan share the internet connection on your Mac with other computers on your local network. For example, if your Mac is connected to the internet using Ethernet, you can share that connection to other computers over Wi-Fi.

You can use your phone's mobile data to connect another phone, tablet, or computer to the internet. Sharing a connection this way is called tethering or using a hotspot. Some phones can share Wi-Fi connection by tethering.

So I use my ipad at work in a room without wi-fi? My mac pro has internet via eathernet. Can I use bluetooth to share the internet from my mac pro to my iPad 3 via bluetooth? If so, what is the proper wat to set up the sharing prefpane to get this working correct? I'm not having much luck. Also is there any changes I need to make to the ipad ofther than doing the pairing? My mac pro os running 10.8.1

Pair your ipad via bluetooth to your mac. Then on your ipad turn off WI-FI. Then on your mac, under sharing, select Internet Sharing. Then for the "Share your connection from" option, select ethernet. For the "To computers using:" opyion , select Bluetooth PAN. Then turn on internet shaying in the left column. WA LA, it works. Kinda slow, but makes but a lot better than nothing!

Right, so this doesn't work. Since Mac is basically unix, it is certainly possible to do this, but Apple does not want to support it natively anymore, I'm guessing, for business reasons. Oh Apple, how we sort of like thee.

'Pair your ipad via bluetooth to your mac. Then on your ipad turn off WI-FI. Then on your mac, under sharing, select Internet Sharing. Then for the "Share your connection from" option, select ethernet. For the "To computers using:" opyion , select Bluetooth PAN. Then turn on internet shaying in the left column.'

Also, BTW can choose "Share your connection from" WiFi instead of from Ethernet("land-line") in the first step if your mac connects via wifi. Wish I had had this a couple of weeks ago when I needed it

I was very hesitant to try this (but sure want to!) : as I turn on ethernet sharing I get this from Mac: " if your computer is connected to a network, turing on ethernet sharing may affect the network settings of other computers and disrupt the network. Contact your sys admin before turning on internet sharing."

I've followed all the instructions from Apple on how to set up and problem solve internet sharing and keep getting the same message, "Incorrect password for..." I've triple checked the password and it's correct. I'm trying to share an ethernet connection over wifi with my MacBook Air and my iPhone can find the network but won't log in, while my work Windows machine can't even find the network. Any help would be much appreciated!

I've just tried logging in after a long break and the new message is now "Unable to join the network..." I'm no longer getting the "Incorrect password..." message. Nothing has change other than perhaps unplugging from the ethernet connection and being away from it for five hours. Thanks for noodling on this.

When I go to the Network tab in System Preferences, it says the LAN is currently active and using the IP address that starts with 209. When I use my phone to go the url provided in the Sharing tab and under Screen Sharing, it replies that it's not a valid address that begins with vnc://. I've typed it twice and checked, so I'm pretty sure I'm using what I'm supposed to, unless I'm missing something.

The IP and Router numbers both start with 209 and are identical except for the last sequence. The Subnet Mask is 255 three times, then something different. I brought the LAN up to the top of the list and will test now. Thanks for the simple directions for things well beyond my level.

Well, the best I can do is share the wifi via usb cable. I really appreciate you helping troubleshoot this. I just got this internet provider having just moved to Vancouver and my wifi routers haven't arrived yet, so I'm stuck with using an ethernet adapter and was hoping I could make my MacBook Air into a hotspot for my other computer and devices. At least i can connect my phone via lightening so don't have to lean so heavily on the data plan, but it's tethered so not the most convenient.

That's what I got. And then tried to share the connection via Internet Sharing. The Windows machine and my phone find my MBA and try to connect but fail. Would the age of my MBA have anything to do with it? It's a mid-2013.

As for what it says for address to access, it's the name of my MBA.local. I tried do a manual IP address in the Network tab and kept the same IP Address, but replaced the .192 with a .0 for the subnet mask. For whatever reason, this kicked the MBA off the USB 10/100/1000 connection so I went back to DHCP.

I only followed the Apple instructions for sharing internet connections via Wi-Fi. Under the Sharing tab, before you turn on internet sharing, you are able to choose what kind of connections you'd like to share and to define what wifi options you want (bottom right of the window). I chose WPA2 for security and created a password. Once you turn on Internet Sharing, the wifi options button greys out; I don't know why this would be necessary, but it's consistent with what Apple published. My Wi-Fi signal strength icon at the top of my screen has a little up arrow and when I click on it, it says I've turned on internet sharing, what channel I'm broadcasting on and the name of my signal.

On the server computer, assign a static IPv4 address to the interface connected to the other machines. The first 3 bytes of this address cannot be exactly the same as those of another interface, unless both interfaces have netmasks strictly greater than /24.

You will note options for controlling forwarding per default, per interface, as well as separate options for IPv4/IPv6 per interface. For detailed description of all available options, see the kernel documentation.

If the system uses systemd-networkd to control the network interfaces, a per-interface setting for IPv4 is not possible, i.e. systemd logic propagates any configured forwarding into a global (for all interfaces) setting for IPv4. The advised work-around is to use a firewall to forbid forwarding again on selective interfaces. See the systemd.network(5) manual page for more information. The IPForward=kernel semantics introduced in a previous systemd release 220/221 to honor kernel settings does not apply anymore.[1] [2]

This sets up packet forwarding for the specific interface only. For internet sharing to properly work, you need to enable packet forwarding on both (all) interfaces where traffic should be routed between. Typically your lan and wan interfaces.

Many firewall configurations, like the default /etc/nftables.conf, set the default policy of the 'filter' table's 'forward' chain to 'drop'. In such cases, you will need rules to allow forwarding NAT traffic:

If you are planning to regularly have several machines using the internet shared by this machine, then is a good idea to install a DHCP server. See Router#DNS and DHCP for the available options. Then configure a DHCP client on every client PC, see Network configuration#Network managers.

Instead of using DHCP, a static IP address and a default route via 192.168.123.100 can also be configured manually. There are many tools available to configure the network accordingly. One prominent example of such a tool is ip(8), see Network configuration#Network management. Alternatively, one can use a .network file, see Systemd-networkd#Wired adapter using a static IP to setup a static IP.

If you are able to connect the two PCs but cannot send data (for example, if the client PC makes a DHCP request to the server PC, the server PC receives the request and offers an IP to the client, but the client does not accept it, timing out instead), check that you do not have other iptables rules interfering.

Symptoms might also include: Clients get host is down when pinging host, gets no route to host when pinging devices outside the LAN (that should be forwarded by NAT), DHCP offers not crossing a bridge, ...

I am currently running PureVPN on my University's network as I live in halls. This is running on my Mac. I wish to use the VPN on my PS4, and I have found a guide on how to do this which involved connecting my PS4 to the mac with a crossover cable and enabling Internet Sharing in my Mac's settings.

"Are you sure you want to turn on Internet sharing? If your computer is connectd to a network, turning on Internet sharing may affect the network settings of other computers and disrupt the network. Contact your system administrator before turning on internet sharing."

If, however, you had an ethernet cable connected back into the University network, well, that might cause some issues whilst it's running, although I can't imagine it doing anything particularly damaging or permanent.

I made sure that Share your connection from... is set to Wi-Fi as that's my source of internet, and To computers using... is set to Thunderbolt Ethernet as that's where my Raspberry Pi is plugged in via crossover ethernet cable.

Apple Network Sharing is very unreliable across different OS and different network channels. I've lost a lot of time on this. Enough so that I'd suggest getting a simple good quality router and setting it up to pick up the wifi ethernet and redistribute it via ethernet. Make sure to set the access point router to act as a bridge (i.e. it would continue to obtain DHCP addresses from the central router). That way you can share to other devices on the master network.

You may find you get faster and more reliable internet on your MacBook Pro as well as the aluminum hulls are not particularly reception friendly, especially in comparison with a router with proper antennas which can be positioned as you like.

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