InternetSharing/public ip addresses/Airport

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I want to forward public IP addresses to clients connected to my WLAN. How do I do this when using the built in internet sharing in Mac OS X 10.3 client? The clients are connected to the computer that shares its internet connection via WLAN.

I have realized that when I start internet sharing three processes are started:

natd -alias_address 123.45.67.89 -interface en0 -use_sockets -same_ports -unregistered_only -dynamic -clamp_mss

bootpd -P

named -c /etc/com.apple.named.conf.proxy -f

I thought that restarting natd with one more argument would help:

-proxy_only
Force natd to perform transparent proxying
only. Normal
address translation is not performed.

but it did not work. After a closer look at the man pages for natd, named and bootpd I have started to suspect that I need to do something with bootpd but I couldn’t find anything in the man-page for it that indicated how make it act like a ‘transparent proxy’. Searching here or on Google didn’t return anything useful.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Keywords: natd named bootpd InternetSharing

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