[l008com]

The computer in question is a PowerTower Pro which is officially unsupported but for the sake of this question assume I'm using a supported Beige G3/266. So anyway, we all know these computer have serial ports, adb ports, no usb etc. They are OLD. My adb keybaord and mouse work perfect under OS X though. One thing that suprised me though was, in the network system preference, when you go to Network Port Configurations, my Modem and Printer port are both in there! I've shared internet over localtalk before on older macs pretty easy, I'm wondering if I could enable one of these ports, give it a local IP, and run natd with it, and pass internet through it to older OS 8 Macs? (OS 9 Doesn't support internet through the serial port). You wouldn't think it would work at first, but on second look, all the pieces are there...

[TC]

Sounds like you need to setup SLIP, Serial Line IP.

There is some software called MacSLIP but it is geared towards dialing up an ISP and then setting up the SLIP connection. I guess this could be adapted to just try to set up the SLIP connection between your macs.

So it looks like you need to set up your old macs as SLIP clients and make your OS X machine a SLIP server.

[l008com]

I've never heard of that before, but I don't think I even need to go that far. If I can really enable TCP/IP on the serial ports, then that should be all I need right? I know to share from two older Macs, if one has IPNetRouter, all you need to do is choose MacIP in the TCP/IP settings of the client mac and configure IPNetRouter to run a "route interface" on the serial port, in just the same way you choose ethernet ports.

[Millennium]

Don't get your hopes up too high. On my Beige G3 I have these, but the only thing I can use them for is setting up modems.