Firewire and Ethernet LAN.

[sansblog]

Hello.

 

As many of you, my ethernet integrated device is unsupported and tulip cannot fix it.

Firewire configuration was easy to share files with another computer.

 

But I wanted to see this "Mac" from other desktops.

This is "Mac" is connected to an XP Os station.

The way to is "routing".

 

1 You have to enable routind under Xp station:

under Regedit, # HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters

# Create a Dword key named: IPEnableRouter

# Give it 1 as value

Now Xp can route.

 

2 You have to add a route to your "Mac" as follow:

Launch a terminal.

type: sudo -s

enter admin password.

 

(My ethernet Xp lan is 192.168.0.2

My firewire Xp is 192.168.1.2

My Mac Firewire is 192.168.1.5)

 

Type : route add -net 192.168.0.0 192.168.1.2.

Gateway of your "Mac" has to be 192.168.1.2. ( replace my adresses by yours of course)

 

At this point, you can ping 192.168.0.2 from your mac.

 

Under your other desktops, just use 192.168.1.2 as gateway; other computer still can use the Wan connection and see and copy files to your "Mac".

I do not know how to connect my "Mac" to the Internet as my internet router is 192.168.0.254 and it does not route to 192.168.1.0 network.

If someone knows How to ...

[George Elliott]

Don't have two firewire enabled computers to try this on, but have you tried just enabling Internet Connection Sharing on your XP's firewire network adaptor? You should just have to leave the MAC firewire as autoconifg.