[krove]

I have an iMac setup to act as a software router / NAT. It does this over the primary ethernet interface (EN0). As such, it has a primary ip address to the outside world, and an inside ip address visible to the computers on my network.

As it stands, rendezvous appears to only work with the first ip address. As such, the other computers on my network are unable to do anything rendezvous with this computers (iChat, mod_rendezvous web server discovery, etc).

Is there any way to force rendezvous to chose the internal 192.168.1.xxx subnet as opposed to the public ip address?

[Drizzt]

Easy..

In your System Preferences, int Network Prefs, in your current location, in the 'Show :' menu, choose 'Network Port Configuration'.

In the list that appears, put the Ethernet configuration containing the '192.168.1.XXX' address on top.. and that's it!

[krove]

There is only one ethernet configuration for my public ip address under Network in System Prefs. I have both ips on one interface.

FYI, I'm using Brickhouse to manage the Firewall, Internet sharing.

[Drizzt]

Then how do you communicate with the inside network?

[krove]

Originally posted by Drizzt:
Then how do you communicate with the inside network?

there are do ip addresses on the one interface. If I run this in terminal, you can see two ip addresses on the en0 interface:

[24-205-210-xxx:~] krove% ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863 <UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::20a:27ff:fe7d:af20%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 24.205.210.xxx netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 24.205.210.255
inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:0a:27:7d:af:20
media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
supported media: 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 100baseTX 100baseTX <full-duplex> autoselect autoselect 10baseT/UTP

System Prefs only sees the 24.205.210.xxx address. But there is still an internal interface.

[Drizzt]

Than you should have 2 Ethernet Ports in Sys Prefs...

[krove]

Originally posted by Drizzt:
Than you should have 2 Ethernet Ports in Sys Prefs...

Not necessarily. In my case, I just configure the second address via Brickhouse. I did, however, create a second interface on en0 in System Prefs and called it internal network.

I applied all the correct ip information manually and move it to the top of my connections list. Interestingly enough, I instantly saw myself appear in my rendezvous iChat buddy list on both computers (pseudo server and client), but the internet stopped working (because the primart connection was moved second in the connection order). Both the internet on the iMac provided NAT and the client could not connect to the internet.

Suggestions?

[Drizzt]

Originally posted by krove:
Not necessarily. In my case, I just configure the second address via Brickhouse. I did, however, create a second interface on en0 in System Prefs and called it internal network.

I applied all the correct ip information manually and move it to the top of my connections list. Interestingly enough, I instantly saw myself appear in my rendezvous iChat buddy list on both computers (pseudo server and client), but the internet stopped working (because the primart connection was moved second in the connection order). Both the internet on the iMac provided NAT and the client could not connect to the internet.

Suggestions?

You just did what I told you to do....

Be shure your netmask is allright.. than it should work.

[krove]

Originally posted by Drizzt:
You just did what I told you to do....

Be shure your netmask is allright.. than it should work.

Netmask is right, but no internet connection.

[krove]

Bah! Why can't apple simply include an interface to allow us to choose which network to allow rendezvous to run over?

For some reason, it will only attach itself to the ip / subnet of the first-ordered entry in Network under Sys Prefs.

By making the public interface second and the private first, I am able to get internet to work on the iMac sharing the connection (through some very odd ip settings nonetheless) but still cannot access it through any other computer. There must be a simpler method.

I know there are a lot of people out there running NATD, sharing their connection, so hasn't anyone figured out how to get rendezvous to work on the private ip interface and not the public one?

Maybe if I poke you with a stick you'll answer?

[barney ntd]

I have exactly the same problem. I'm sharing my cable modem (en0) over airport (en1) and I haven't found a fix. If I put the ethernet connection at the top of the list, internet sharing works but rendezvous doesn't; if I put the airport at the top, rendezvous works but internet sharing doesn't.

All my fiddling has lead to no solution, so I live without rendezvous. Fortunately printer sharing works. This was my first bit of feedback on 10.2, and I've been waiting for a fix ever since.

Barney

[Drizzt]

Well.. I'm short of ideas.. sorry!