Network bridging with OsX

sisob

I'm planning on getting an iMac with a wireless card.
I'm going to hook up eircom dsl to it via it's ethernet port
to an ethernet asdl modem.

I'm also going to be connecting this pc to the rest of my house
via a wireless network. There will we windows, osX and linux
clients in the network. I want them all to be able to share
the dsl connection (the iMac will be on all the time)

I've done a config like this before in linux and windows with
network bridging and NAT forwarding, and am familiar with
how to configure the clients, but can anyone tell me if it's easy
or possible to set this up with osX.

Dr_Teeth

It is extremely easy. Turn on your airport card, create a network and give it a name. Then go to the sharing control panel and turn on internet connection sharing and click the option for sharing with the wireless network.

Set all the PCs in your home to join the wireless network name you chose above, and set them to get their IP addresses automatically. You may have to add DNS servers manually though, so find out what their addresses are from your ISP.

Teeth.

sisob

Rock, sounds easy, a DHCP server and all

sisob

Another question: Could I just hook the aDSL up to my airport
base station, bareing in mind that I'm using eircom solo
so all traffic must come from the one ip (ie. use NAT).

Synkronite

Yeah you can (So even if you reboot the imac, the connection won't die for the other computers) However you'll need a modem as the basestation doesnt have a built-in ADSL modem. But since you have the ethernet modem, just plug that into your Basestation

Apple. It just works.

Gordon

A mate of mine was saying that the airport can carry for about 50 metres. This true? Because his "other" computer can also use this service if he so wishes surely?