[Ti] Internet Sharing

[David DelMonte]

Jesse, thanks! the configuration is slightly different than you 
describe. The base station is connected to the ISDN Terminal 
Adapter(TA)  through USB, and the base station IP address is in the 
62.103.x.x. range. Does this mean something different?

David

On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 06:13 PM, Jesse Brown wrote:

> On 8/8/03 6:19, "David DelMonte" <ddelmonte at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> I have set everything up now. I still cannot connect using the remote
>> PB. It looks like it's trying to load a page -- I get no errors -- but
>> Safari times out after 60 secs.
>>
>> I am on OS 10.2.6 on both machines.
>>
>> Could it be that my internet connection (dual ISDN - 128KB) wont allow
>> multiple access?
>
>
> David,
>
> Let me take a crack at summarizes what you should have set up based on 
> your
> conversation with Woz:
>
> 1) Base station Network preferences should be normal Ethernet DHCP, 
> assuming
> your ISDN modem is assigning your base station an IP number through 
> NAT.
> This is how many of them work. So your base station is set with a 
> private
> NAT address "probably" in the 192.168.0.x range.
>
> 2) Airport Network Port configuration should be off as it's not needed 
> in
> this case on the base station Network Preferences.
>
> 3) Internet Sharing should be on , on the base station where  "Share 
> Your
> Internet Connection..." is checked.
>
> 4) Click on the Airport Options to give your Airport network a name 
> and to
> set Encryption and password options if needed.
>
> 5) Click the Start button. Your Airport Network should be operational.
>
> 6) On the Remote machine you should be able to connect to the Base 
> Station
> if your Airport is turned on and DHCP is set in the Network 
> Preferences. IT
> will probably assign you an Ip in the 10.x.x.x range.
>
> The only hitch I see in this setup is NAT-NAT routing at the base 
> station.
> You have a NAT router with the ISDN modem/router assigning your base 
> station
> a Private NAT address and the Base station assigning your remote 
> machine a
> NAT IP number possibly in the same range.
>
> This may be why you can't connect to the internet because there is an
> attempt to route NAT-NAT through your BS.
>
> Check the IP number on your base station. If it's in the same range as 
> your
> remote machine then this may be the problem - they can't be in the same
> range.  (are they both in the 10.x.x.x range?)
>
> The only workaround that I can figure would be to log onto the ISDN 
> router
> via it's web interface and change the NAT address scheme if that is 
> possible
> to use the 192.168.x.x scheme. You can't change the Base station range 
> as
> far as I know.
>
> In the long run I'm not sure you can route NAT-NAT with simple router
> configurations like we're dealing with. I suspect you would need a more
> robust router and some static routing tables configured. If anyone 
> knows a
> simple workaround, now would be a good time to jump in.
>
>
> -- 
> Jesse
>
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