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Bridge! 2 Mac OS

You have just set up your mac to be a router, NOT a bridge. A bridge operates at layer 2, not layer 3. If you had set up a bridge, you would have created a virtual bridge interface and added both network adapters to it. The bridge interface would get a single IP address, and then anything connected to either interface could have an address from. Many have already done so, and Rosetta 2 will allow users to run apps that haven't yet been ported. Run iOS and iPadOS apps natively on macOS. For many people, this will be the most exciting feature of the new OS. You will now be able to run any mobile app on Big Sur natively, provided your device is powered by one of Apple's ARM-based chips. Poly Bridge 2 is a complete civil simulator with detailed planning elements in the sense that you can develop a complete blueprint of a bridge before underlaying it. The campaign mode of the game has detailed scenarios that will allow you to introduce a wide range of geographic features in your constructed bridge.
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This is a quick post about setting up a simple layer 2 network bridge using a Mac (in this case a 2011 Mac Mini) running OS X (Mavricks). My goal was to setup the Mac, henceforth referred to as the mini, as an access point for my main network. I found no resources on line that covered doing this so I decided to write it up for those are interested.
What we're not doingI found many posts online that covered setting up 'Internet Sharing' with a Mac. Some of those referred to this as ‘bridging' which it is not. At least, in it's simplest form it is little more than Network Address Translation (NAT) with packets being forwarded from one interface to another. The problem with that approach is that only IP Traffic is passed and even that is adulterated such that clients on one side (the inside) of the link are not directly addressable by hosts on the other side (the outside) of the link.
Bridge 2 Mac Os Version Get Rid Of One MacosIt's great for letting multiple machines browse the web but not good for having multiple machines talk to each other whether they're plugged in at the switch or connecting over Wifi and pulling from a common DHCP pool of addresses.
Configure Primary InterfacePrimary is conceptual here. I'm taking about the interface that I'll use to configure the host from over the network. The IP address for this interface will be the (main) address for this host. For me the primary interface is the ethernet port on the back of the Mini. Yours could be any of USB, BlueTooth, USB, FireWire, etc.
We want to make sure that the interface is properly setup on the network. For you that may mean DHCP configuration, manually IP-ing it, or something else. I'm not going to spend time telling you how to do this. You'll know it's working when you can ping something external to the box (preferably external to the network).
In my case I set a static lease in my DHCP server so that every time the mac address for the Mini shows up it gets the same IP. The interface happens to be en0.Mac Os Mojave
Reboot and make sure it works on start up.
Turn on Internet SharingYes, I know what I said before. We're using this to make sure that we can actually connect to the WIFI access point and get packets out on the network.
Go to System Preferences -> Sharing
On the left-hand side under Service click onInternet Sharing but make sure you do not click the ‘on' checkbox next to it.
Share your connection from: should be set to Ethernet (at least for me).
To computers using: should have (only) Wi-Fi selected (the checkbox to the left). 
Click on Wi-Fi Options and setup the SSID, password, and channel you plan to use in the end. You can use test values if you want, just remember to set them appropriately before you're done with the final step.
When you're sure everything is setup as you desire, click the checkbox next to Internet Sharing to enable it and click OK or Start if prompted by a subsequent dialog box to (re)start Internet Sharing.
Now configure a wireless client to connect to your Mac's wireless network. Try to ping something to make sure it works.
Reboot and make sure it works on startup.
Bridge the interfacesInternet Sharing is going to interfere with binding the two interfaces together into a bridge. So the first thing we have to do is open a terminal window and type:
sudo launchctl unload -w
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist
That disables Internet Sharing. The actual command to create the bridge is remarkably simple. At the command line type in: 
sudo ifconfig bridge create
The output of this command depends on what other bridge devices may exist already. If you get something like bridgeX where X is a number then that is your new bridge device and you now only have to add interfaces to it:
sudo ifconfig bridge0 addm en0 addm en1 up
For me en0 is my ethernet port, en1 is the Wi-Fi device, and bridge0 is the name of the device returned by the previous command. Your device names/numbers may be different. Use ifconfig to help figure it out. 

Once you're done with the above you need to re-enable Internet Sharing: 

This is a quick post about setting up a simple layer 2 network bridge using a Mac (in this case a 2011 Mac Mini) running OS X (Mavricks). My goal was to setup the Mac, henceforth referred to as the mini, as an access point for my main network. I found no resources on line that covered doing this so I decided to write it up for those are interested.
What we're not doingI found many posts online that covered setting up 'Internet Sharing' with a Mac. Some of those referred to this as ‘bridging' which it is not. At least, in it's simplest form it is little more than Network Address Translation (NAT) with packets being forwarded from one interface to another. The problem with that approach is that only IP Traffic is passed and even that is adulterated such that clients on one side (the inside) of the link are not directly addressable by hosts on the other side (the outside) of the link.
Bridge 2 Mac Os Version Get Rid Of One MacosIt's great for letting multiple machines browse the web but not good for having multiple machines talk to each other whether they're plugged in at the switch or connecting over Wifi and pulling from a common DHCP pool of addresses.
Configure Primary InterfacePrimary is conceptual here. I'm taking about the interface that I'll use to configure the host from over the network. The IP address for this interface will be the (main) address for this host. For me the primary interface is the ethernet port on the back of the Mini. Yours could be any of USB, BlueTooth, USB, FireWire, etc.
We want to make sure that the interface is properly setup on the network. For you that may mean DHCP configuration, manually IP-ing it, or something else. I'm not going to spend time telling you how to do this. You'll know it's working when you can ping something external to the box (preferably external to the network).
In my case I set a static lease in my DHCP server so that every time the mac address for the Mini shows up it gets the same IP. The interface happens to be en0.Mac Os Mojave
Reboot and make sure it works on start up.
Turn on Internet SharingYes, I know what I said before. We're using this to make sure that we can actually connect to the WIFI access point and get packets out on the network.
Go to System Preferences -> Sharing
On the left-hand side under Service click onInternet Sharing but make sure you do not click the ‘on' checkbox next to it.
Share your connection from: should be set to Ethernet (at least for me).
To computers using: should have (only) Wi-Fi selected (the checkbox to the left). 
Click on Wi-Fi Options and setup the SSID, password, and channel you plan to use in the end. You can use test values if you want, just remember to set them appropriately before you're done with the final step.
When you're sure everything is setup as you desire, click the checkbox next to Internet Sharing to enable it and click OK or Start if prompted by a subsequent dialog box to (re)start Internet Sharing.
Now configure a wireless client to connect to your Mac's wireless network. Try to ping something to make sure it works.
Reboot and make sure it works on startup.
Bridge the interfacesInternet Sharing is going to interfere with binding the two interfaces together into a bridge. So the first thing we have to do is open a terminal window and type:
sudo launchctl unload -w
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist
That disables Internet Sharing. The actual command to create the bridge is remarkably simple. At the command line type in: 
sudo ifconfig bridge create
The output of this command depends on what other bridge devices may exist already. If you get something like bridgeX where X is a number then that is your new bridge device and you now only have to add interfaces to it:
sudo ifconfig bridge0 addm en0 addm en1 up
For me en0 is my ethernet port, en1 is the Wi-Fi device, and bridge0 is the name of the device returned by the previous command. Your device names/numbers may be different. Use ifconfig to help figure it out. 

Once you're done with the above you need to re-enable Internet Sharing: 
sudo launchctl load -w
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist

Connect your devices and test to make sure that you can get a proper LAN IP address.
Making it lastYou'll want to run the command line steps every time the system starts. I do this with a cronjob for the root user. I store it in ~root/bin/ (/var/root/bin) and invoke it with the line:
@reboot /var/root/bin/bridge.sh
The script contains:

Reboot and make sure it all works on start up
Happy hacking..

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This is exactly what I was thinking of doing, only I don't have my brother's iBook around to test it with. When he comes home from college this will be perfect for it.
 Thanks for the article!
This is what i have been trying to do too. I am useing an iBook, and airport, and i am trying to get my xbox downstairs to be online using this method. I have the xbox hooked to a hub, and then the ibook hooked to the hub. The xbox doesn't have settings for dhcp though, so i have to set it up manually, and what was confusing me is: is this is an Internal-Internal network? or do i have the same ip settings as the ibook, but a new ip? i can't get it to work so far. thanks...
 do i plug this into the uplink or a normal port on the hub?
I am not to sure on the specifics of hooking up an XBox as I don't have one and I don't know anyone who has one.
 I would assume that if the XBox would be able to be used on the Internet that it would have the ability of doing DHCP. Hello, alien! mac os. I tried doing a search on Google for XBox and DHCP, but since I don't have a console, I really couldn't verify.
 But as for you question about the hub. You would want to connect your iBook that is being the Ethernet Basestation to the uplink port of the hub.
 Basically your iBook would be giving your XBox or whatever was connected to it a dynamic IP and your iBook would be getting a dynamic IP from the Wireless Basestation (unless you set it up for a static IP.)
 I guess the trick that you would have to do is find out what ports that your console box uses an somehow create a path for the network to follow coming in by setting the network ports.
 I don't know how to set port mappings with the software based DHCP servers on our Macs. I will try and find out and post it as a separate tip.
 Cheers, Skipping Rock.
You do not want to put the ibooks connection into the uplink, place it in a regular slot in the HUB. The manual settings when using Internet sharing for a computer on it is 
 ip: 192.168.2.(2-255)
 Subnet: 255.255.255.0
 Router-Gateway: 192.168.2.1
 Don't forget some ISP's require DNS to be entered in all computers an your LAN.
 Port Mapping is going to be an adventure..
Theoretically, once everyone has Airports (and I mean every house and apartment on the block), they could all be linked together. We wouldn't need The Internet anymore. ;)
Bridge 2 Mac Os Downloadsthis does not bridge the network, by using dhcp, the computer getting the shared internet, gets an ip of 192.168.2.2
 This is NOT on my network, sure, it can see out, but the rest of my computers on 192.168.1.* cannot see it. Only the computer shareing the internet to it can see it.
Yes, I agree that bridging was the wrong word to use, but I had already submitted the tip when I realised the confusion that may cause. I was at a loss of words as to what I should call the thing and sadly I forgot that bridge has a slightly different meaning.
 But this is fun none the less and it works.
 I assume that if we could figure out a way to do port mapping that you could use it to see in.
 SkippingRock
I could be wrong, but I don't think it is possible to create a software base station by using the sharing feature under the sharing preference panel. I know that the above solution does work, but I do not think it does in reverse (a.k.a software wireless base station). 
 I've tried numerous ways to create a software base station (using mac os 10.2.4 and the supplied gui features) and have been unsuccessful on each attempt. Additionally, there is not any documentation to support the existence of its possibilities.
 It is quite possible that I am wrong, but has anyone been successful on creating a software base station without using third party software or doing some tweaking from the command line? 
 If I am wrong, I appologize, but if I am correct, I think it might be best to remove the reference of software base station (for solution accuracy purposes).
From the looks of it, the feature I am speaking of might be available very soon.
 http://www.apple.com/airport/swbase/
Everything works great! thanks!
 I just have one question that I am having trouble finding an answer for.. is there anything I can do to help boost the signal of my wireless card for people who are using me as a bridge.
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-- I love my powerbook
Hello. I am using my G4 1GHz powerbook to connect to my linksys wireless router which is connected to my cable modem and the Internet.
 I have an IBM laptop with a pcmcia network card that I am using to connect to the powerbook's ethernet port, so the ibm laptop can share the apple's internet connection. However, I have run up against a snag.
 I can ping out via the command line on the ibm laptop to various sites such as www.yahoo.com, www.joecartoon.com, and www.geocaching.com, my choices for a 'ping' test. I get ping replies back, indicating that the ibm is able to ping out to those sites through the mac.
 Problem is, I can't bring up a web page on the ibm. Is there any reason why I would not be able to do this? I have Internet Connection Sharing and Windows Sharing enabled on the powerbook.
 Kind regards,
 Firefishe
Bridge 2 Mac Os CatalinaFor what it's worth, if you found this article because you were after an ACTUAL NETWORK BRIDGE. rather than the crazy overcomplicated NAT that the OP has detailed, I'll save you a little bit of time (sort of):
 OS X's kernel does NOT have bridging support compiled in. The code is there, but it's not enabled in the config. you have to add 'enable BRIDGE' and also set a sysctl variable. How you actually bridge the devices I have no idea, because I couldn't be bothered going to the trouble of actually doing it. While I could recompile my kernel, the fact that you have to makes my potential use for it moot, as most other users would not be willing to do this.
 Sad but true. What Windows can do with three clicks.. OSX cannot do without recompiling the kernel and doing some manual configuration. Where's the GUI Steve ? Why have you got a pretty GUI for aggregating interfaces but not bridging them ? Very unimpressed :'(
are you sure of what you say ?
 if it's true, what method is used by VMWare and Parallels Desktop to bridge their virtual machines ?