I'd suggest using a firewall on the daisy hained Mac. That way, they can
both access the Internet...

A good fire wall is teh Firewall Toolkit...I don't have the slightest diea
where'd you'd find it, though...sorry :)

Josh

On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Howard S Shubs wrote:

> >I have a feeling their restriction is intended simply to limit the
> >number of IP addresses. Is there a way to connect the two Macs and the
> >one faceplate, via Ethernet, that uses only one IP address between the
> >two? What hardware/software do I need?
> 
> You're probably right, but let's ignore that for now.
> 
> Assuming you have ethernet ports on the two Macs, you can daisy chain them
> using thinwire (2baseT?) and plug one end of the chain into the school's
> interface.  If they only want to give you one address, and won't route an
> address you provide to them (hint hint), then you'll only be able to access
> one of the machines from outside your net, and visa versa.  The two
> machines should still be able to see each other, if you give the remaining
> (unofficial) machine an address from out of the air, whose generation I
> leave as an exercise for the student. (read: I can't tell you off-hand how
> to do this)
> 
> Corrections welcome.
> 
> Howard S Shubs         hshubs@bix.com          Now, do you want the
> The Denim Adept        hshubs@mindspring.com   -correct- answer?
> 
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