Overview

About IP Sharing

IP Sharing refers to the ability of your Mac OS X computer to act as a router and firewall for other computers on your local network.

For example, if you have several computers connected to an ethernet hub at home, one of the computers (assuming it's a MacOS X machine) could connect to the internet via a dial up modem, install a firewall, and enable IP Sharing. Then the rest of your computers at home could connect to the internet through the firewall machine, and be protected by its firewall as well.

IP Sharing in this version is preliminary and experimental. For this reason, there is no feature provided to start up IP Sharing when your Mac boots. You must start and stop it manually. Therefore, if somethings goes completely haywire, rebooting your Mac should restore your computer to a 'normal' state.

 
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