How do I get my iBook to route through my iMac via a router ?

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My ISP had made a huge bô-bô which has left me without high speed for the next 5 days. I can still connect my iMac via modem though.

Now, I've enabled Internet Sharing from Modem to Ethernet, which is connected to a D-Link DI604 router. I tried pinging my web server (on the WAN) from my iBook but it can't look up the host (i.e., can't connect to the internet).

Do I have to write a special 'route' on my iBook's routing tables to get this to work properly ?

Edit: I tried plugging in my iMac's ethernet port to the WAN port on my router to try to trick it into thinking I was another upstream router, but alas, it didn't work.
 
michaelsanford said:
My ISP had made a huge bô-bô which has left me without high speed for the next 5 days. I can still connect my iMac via modem though.

Now, I've enabled Internet Sharing from Modem to Ethernet, which is connected to a D-Link DI604 router. I tried pinging my web server (on the WAN) from my iBook but it can't look up the host (i.e., can't connect to the internet).

Do I have to write a special 'route' on my iBook's routing tables to get this to work properly ?

Edit: I tried plugging in my iMac's ethernet port to the WAN port on my router to try to trick it into thinking I was another upstream router, but alas, it didn't work.
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Can you bypass the router?
Plug on end of an ethernet cord into the imac with sharing from modem-->ethernet on and then plug the other ethernet cord into the iBook. I don't believe there is any need for a router here.
 
Clever idea! only my iBook doesn't auto-sense upstream vs downstream ethernet, so I'd need a 30 foot crossover cable which ironically I do own but is right now inaccessible (sitting in a warehouse in another province).

I did try it anyway though, with a regular cable: I don't even get an IP address.
 
Hmm, very odd. I share my internet connection from Airport wireless to ethernet (to my brother's windows XP laptop) when he is home and needs to use the internet. I simply turn on Internet Sharing from Airport Wireless to Ethernet, and plug in an ethernet cord from my powerbook to his laptop and his computer works fine.
 
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