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Pass Airport DHCP through Mac via ethernet

I've been searvching for hours and poking at the Mac to try and figure this out:


Equipment

  • Airport Extreme base station, serving up DHCP 10.0.1.x range
  • Mac Mini (10.7)
  • AV receiver with ethernet port


Goal

  1. I need to access local network & internet access to the receiver, via the Mini's unused ethernet port.
  2. Other airport extreme DHCP clients must be able to resolve/access the receiver's IP address


Problem

Basic ICS (Internet Sharing) on the Mini presents the receiver with a canned 192.168.2.x address. This enables the receiver to access other network resources, including internet. Great. It does not, however, allow other airport extreme client access to the receiver. I cannot ping the receiver's assigned 192.168.2.2 addy because it;s an unknown NATd network created locally on the Mini. I need to find a way to either provide some route transltion on the AP extreme, or find a way to transitively use one of the AP extreme's 10.0.1.x IPs directly on the Receiver, through the mini.


In short, I think I need a way to use the MAc Mini as a simple bridge to the ethernet-connected receiver, if thsiis even possible, rather than NATing the receiver's IP.



Anyone have a clue how I can achieve this?


Thanks in advance.

Mac mini (Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Jun 11, 2013 6:33 PM

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Jun 11, 2013 8:11 PM in response to Guesswho369

OS X doesn't do bridging, so that's out.


Internet Sharing doesn't do port forwarding, so that's out too. You would have to configure NAT and ipfw manually, which is unreasonably complicated for what you're trying to achieve. The right solution, if you can't run Ethernet from the router to receiver, is to use a second wireless access point, such as an AirPort Express, as an extender.


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Pass Airport DHCP through Mac via ethernet

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