Mikeghali

Q: Mavericks Internet Sharing requiring restarts

Hey all,

 

I have been using Internet Sharing on my mid-2011 Macbook Air to provide internet to my iPhone and iPad (through ethernet) for the past few months.While I was running the latest incarnation of Mountain Lion, I often had difficulties with the network being available, but no internet connection being made. I often solved this problem by turning Sharing off and back on again.

Since my upgrade to Mavericks, I have experienced a different problem. I will turn on Internet Sharing and for less than half a second the sharing symbol (the grey wifi symbol with an arrow in it) will appear, before reverting to normal (normal being that the computer is searching for wifi signals). Even though Internet Sharing is 'on', neither of my iOS devices can detect the signal, and there is no indication that the macbook is even broadcasting it.

Often I will need to restart the computer 3-4 times before it works as intended.

 

Is there anything that I can do to minimise or eliminate this problem?

MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 25, 2013 10:41 PM

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  • by SuperSelrak,

    SuperSelrak SuperSelrak Apr 18, 2014 6:35 AM in response to Mikeghali
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    Apr 18, 2014 6:35 AM in response to Mikeghali

    Hey all,

     

    Same problem (sharing icon instead of regular wifi icon appears only for a split second, sharing starts only to stop immediately).

     

    1) Re LBJ-UK : I did find an old keychain item about my 'en1' interface, got rid of that - no change.

    2) Re bolste : indeed, there was someone else using UDP and stuff (whatever the heck that means) : no less than launchd/bootps, PID n°1 ! A hard kill with your well-written script did not do the trick though. But a regular, by-the-book launchctl unload with option w did the job. Now lsof -i udp:67 displays two UDP67 users : bootpd and InternetS (which I guess to be InternetSharing !), and it works.

     

    To sum it up : do this !

     

         launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/bootps.plist

     

    PS : maybe deleting the old keychain item helped, too.

  • by Jann5s,

    Jann5s Jann5s May 15, 2014 7:50 AM in response to Mikeghali
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    May 15, 2014 7:50 AM in response to Mikeghali

    Bolste's script did the charm for me, thank you for figuring it out!

  • by Di Keller,

    Di Keller Di Keller Jul 3, 2014 2:04 AM in response to LBJ_UK
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    Jul 3, 2014 2:04 AM in response to LBJ_UK

    Thank you, thank you,  thank  you  !!  I have spent hours of googling etc.  Wouldn't have thought of that in a million years.  But it worked !!!

  • by aaleexh,

    aaleexh aaleexh Jul 19, 2014 1:57 PM in response to bolste
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    Jul 19, 2014 1:57 PM in response to bolste

    Thank you so much! This helped me so bad, since I can't reboot all the time!

  • by cleetaylor,

    cleetaylor cleetaylor Aug 12, 2014 1:25 AM in response to SuperSelrak
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    Aug 12, 2014 1:25 AM in response to SuperSelrak

    Thanks, your command

    launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/bootps.plist 

     

    Did not work for me, but had me find the bootdp program with

    ps axw |grep -i bootpd

    and then sudo kill -9 pid of bootpd

    CLee-Taylors-MacBook-Pro:~ clinton.taylor$ ps axw |grep -i boot

    4720   ??  S      0:00.02 bootpd -d -P

    4917 s000  S+     0:00.00 grep -i boot

    CLee-Taylors-MacBook-Pro:~ clinton.taylor$ sudo kill -9 4720

    Also a side note, I made sure that Internet Sharing was off when I did the above and then was able to turn on Internet Sharing without a problem there after. 

     

    Not sure why bootpd is not unloading correctly or reloading when enabling Internet Sharing, but this solve my problem and I don't need to restart my Mac to get working again.

     

    Hope this helps others and Apple fix this problem.

  • by nelsonlima,

    nelsonlima nelsonlima Aug 30, 2014 1:31 PM in response to Mikeghali
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    Aug 30, 2014 1:31 PM in response to Mikeghali

    Hi all!

     

    Thank you for your help although it didn't work on my mac.

    Anyway, this solved my problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWsv24Prtm

     

    Hope it helps!

  • by Riccardo Di Roberto,

    Riccardo Di Roberto Riccardo Di Roberto Dec 1, 2014 7:40 AM in response to bolste
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    Dec 1, 2014 7:40 AM in response to bolste

    Thank you very much Bolste, now I don't have to reboot anymore when Internet Sharing acts like crazy.

    Does anyone know if this has been reported as a bug to Apple?

    This seem to occur just after the mac resumes from sleep. And it's really a frustrating bug!

  • by Lord Rex,

    Lord Rex Lord Rex Jan 22, 2015 1:36 PM in response to bolste
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    Jan 22, 2015 1:36 PM in response to bolste

    Worked like a champ. Thanks so much for helping solve this issue.

  • by vaibhav.v.wardegmail.com,

    vaibhav.v.wardegmail.com vaibhav.v.wardegmail.com Jun 28, 2015 11:16 AM in response to bolste
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    Jun 28, 2015 11:16 AM in response to bolste

    Thanks a lot Stephen.

  • by LeoFonseca,

    LeoFonseca LeoFonseca Mar 26, 2016 8:30 PM in response to Mikeghali
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    Mac OS X
    Mar 26, 2016 8:30 PM in response to Mikeghali

    Tried everything posted here.

    The only thing the worked for me was to reset pram:

     

    http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reset-macs-smc-pram/

     

    MacBook Pro 13 early 2011

    El Capitan OS X 10.11.4

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