Sharing a Single Internet Connection with Multiple Computers
If you have multiple computers on which you want to be able to access the Internet, and only one convenient connection to the Internet itself, you can now easily configure Mac OS X to share the connection it has to the Internet with other machines connected to it on other interfaces. Yet again, more sophisticated options are available at the command line, but being able to just click a button and turn your machine into an AirPort base station or allow all your local machines to communicate with the Internet through your modem is wonderfully convenient.
Figure 7.19 shows the Internet subpane of the Sharing preferences pane. Clicking the Start button enables a number of things under Mac ...
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