Turn off DHCP in internet sharing?

JumpMaster

JumpMaster

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I'm in a dorm on campus and we can't have DHCP stuff so my question is this: when I activate internet sharing in the sharing tab of System Preferences is there a way that i can make it so it doesn't assign IP addresses but rather just supplies a path to the network so that the clients can request an ip from the main DHCP (like my airport express)

or do i even need to worry about it since i'm sharing my wireless connection through my ethernet port to a friends laptop who doesn't have wireless.

the reason that i'm worried is that my AiportExpress was assigning ip's to people on ethernet... (and that was bad. i got my port shut off for that :( )
 
why not just get a small switch. plug it in to your network port. plug in the airport so you can use wireless. let your "friend" plug into the switch. simple.
 
network port is in bedroom, we were working in the living room so I my PB on wireless and Internet sharing out ethernet and a cable going between the two lap tops.
 
ok. either way. it should only be "sharing" on the port you select, not the airport connection too... um. only other thing is to run a cable from one room to the next.
 
If you share the connection from behind a router,
no one should be able to tell what you are doing.

Use a router that can be configured as a DHCP server,
and the only IP address visible to the network will be
the one from the router.

I have 6 computers pulling DHCP IP addresses
from a firewall router that shows on the network
as a single connection.
 
g/re/p hit it right on the money. We do a similar thing (home and at the office) and outside of our network everything is transparent.
 
The problem that i was having is that somehow stupid windows machines were that were on the outside were getting ip's from my system and then that messed up their windows networking...
 
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