internet sharing with 3rd party ethernet card

[arri]

Hi,

couldn't find anything like this in previous threads.. so:

i've got an old beige G3,which i thought to set up as a router/server,
to distribute internet from my cable connection to the rest of the house.
(also since the Edimax router just stopped working yesterday)

so i put in an extra ethernet-card (100Mbs). succesfully connect to the cable-modem with the built-in 10Mbs port, and then share this using internet sharing with the 100Mbs port. But this doesn't work somehow.

i can connect to the machine from any other machine on the Lan, but don't have internet on the Lan.
I use a Digitus 10/100 ethernet card (realtek chipset RTL8139D).

anyone any idea why it doesn't work, and how to get it to ?

thanks
arri

 

[arri]

endlessly searching the net gave the answer:
the machine should have personal web-sharing turned on...
(is this the same as: .. should have apache running?)

anyway it works now. Strange though, as this isn't nessecary on my laptop, when i want to share internet from the ethernet port to airport.


arri

 

[brianleahy]

Just FYI:
Apache is a web server. Web sharing is not the same as web "serving".

You'd use Apache if you wanted to host a web page from your Mac.

 

[arri]

Just FYI:
Apache is a web server. Web sharing is not the same as web "serving".
You'd use Apache if you wanted to host a web page from your Mac.

yes i understand, but enabling web-sharing also enables the Apache webserver.. and appearntly my problem lays in the fact that i had a firewall running, which disabled any traffic from Lan to Wan.
Starting web-sharing opens port 80 in the firewall and there i go!

Another problom turns up:

The ethernet card connected to the Lan (Digitus 10/100 Mbit, realtek chipset RTL8139D), works fine when using normal, but when i want to copy large amounts of data (e.g. > 1 Gb) to the server, the card at one point just stops working. As if it crashes. the switch to which it is connected indicates there's still a connection, but there's no connection to the machine possible anymore.
I worked around it by setting the ethernet-card of my laptop to 10Mbit, but this ofcourse goes very slow.. At least i managed to copy everything.

Any idea what is the problem here?

thanks,
arri

 

[mdnky]

There's a couple of programs out there you can use as 'frontends' to the built-in firewall. Brickhouse is the name of one of them.

Enabling web serving should have no effect on network file serving or internet connection sharing. If you enable just port 80, that's all that should be accessible otherwise you've actually got a major security issue.

You'd be better off buying a nice "cheapy" router from Linksys or D-Link for about $40 or $50. That would vastly simplify things, not to mention give you a good hardware based firewall (most have them now included) and cost the same or possibly even less than a new Mac compatible NIC card.