Connecting via Campus network to a Cable Connection
Here's the assumed setup:
1. A computer that shares cable internet (Running Mac OS X) over a campus network that already has internet and DHCP servers.
2. The computer is a PowerMac G3/300 with two ethernet cards.
?G3/300 Blue/White rev.2
?40GB HD, or 10GB choice; I'm assuming no caching.
?384 MB RAM
?eth(0) is built-in
?eth(1) is pci
?Mac OS X Tiger v10.4.2
3. My question is how would you connect via campus network to this machine and access it's much faster internet, but still keeping most people out (like via user/pass) and not have DHCP coming from it? (as this would interfere with the campus's own dhcp connection.)
Some off-the-cuff ideas: Do some kind of tunneling...(if so, any good program recommendations?) Do I need to tunnel TCP through ICMP, I would think that uncecessary, as our network's firewalls will allow both. They don't block any internal-internal ports.
RECAP: Basically I pay for a cable connection that we got installed, but riding over the college's cable connection. Somehow I figured this out, it was complicated on their end. So in a dorm room there is a Cable Connection of which I was last year, and I want to be able to connect to it through our network. Wireless is too far away. The dorm is about 500 ft away.
thanks in advance.
-walloo.
1. A computer that shares cable internet (Running Mac OS X) over a campus network that already has internet and DHCP servers.
2. The computer is a PowerMac G3/300 with two ethernet cards.
?G3/300 Blue/White rev.2
?40GB HD, or 10GB choice; I'm assuming no caching.
?384 MB RAM
?eth(0) is built-in
?eth(1) is pci
?Mac OS X Tiger v10.4.2
3. My question is how would you connect via campus network to this machine and access it's much faster internet, but still keeping most people out (like via user/pass) and not have DHCP coming from it? (as this would interfere with the campus's own dhcp connection.)
Some off-the-cuff ideas: Do some kind of tunneling...(if so, any good program recommendations?) Do I need to tunnel TCP through ICMP, I would think that uncecessary, as our network's firewalls will allow both. They don't block any internal-internal ports.
RECAP: Basically I pay for a cable connection that we got installed, but riding over the college's cable connection. Somehow I figured this out, it was complicated on their end. So in a dorm room there is a Cable Connection of which I was last year, and I want to be able to connect to it through our network. Wireless is too far away. The dorm is about 500 ft away.
thanks in advance.
-walloo.
Comments
Mulling it over, I'm going to see if I can install Mac OS X server, and create a VPN bridge so that I can have solely high-speed internet while on our slow Campus connection.
YES.
It woldn't speed up your internet, because the same campus network is still the problem there.
reg