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Mikeghali Author

Level 1

5 points

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

54 replies

Jann5s

Level 1

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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!

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 !!!

aaleexh

Level 1

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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!

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.