Cmnd In Terminal Mac For Who Is Using My Internet

Computer Science & Machine Learning • • • • July 3rd, 2017. Even if Mac-OSX has a Unix core, Apple put some layers on top of it, which makes it rather hard to freely hack around. That's why I wrote an own recently. Configuring a Mac (Macbook Pro in my case) to act as a NAT router is hairy as well.

Sure, there are the sharing options, but they're quite limited and bring their own DHCP server, with no control over it anymore. Setting up NAT by appealing to the core of OSX is not that hard. I assume your Mac (=router) has a Wifi connection to the internet (en0, configured with upstream DHCP).

Using the Terminal to Identify Network Settings There are several ways of finding or changing your wireless network settings using your Mac. Inputting command line into the Terminal is one of the quickest ways to manage your network without switching through several different screens. How to use Terminal on a Mac We're getting ahead of ourselves, however. Using Terminal is straightforward: you type a command on the command-line and press Return to execute it.

A network interface (en4), connected to the network which needs to be connected to the internet has a static IP address 192.168.3.1. You can set this static IP address either via the network settings or via the Terminal: $ networksetup -setmanual 'Ethernet' 192.168.3.1 255.255.0.0 Note: ifconfig would work as well, but can be overwritten by the network settings. So using networksetup is the better option.

Enable IP forwarding on OSX Now we need to enable packet forwarding. This can be accomplished with the following command: $ sudo sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 Now the interesting part. Apple changed the way NAT works quite often over the last versions of OSX. The most recent way is to use pfctl. To do this, add the following line to /etc/pf.conf: nat on en0 from en4:network to any -> (en0) Remember: en0 is the Wifi network with internet connection, en4 is the local network connection.

To activate the change run the following commands: # Disable PF if it was enabled before sudo pfctl -d # Enable PF and load the config sudo pfctl -e -f /etc/pf.conf Configure the clients Either you use an own DHCP server or configure the other devices statically.

If you're setting up a new web server or another device that's going to be connected to the internet and you want to put it through its paces before it's live, or if you're having trouble with spyware and adware networks, there's an invisible file on your Mac that can help. It's called the Hosts file, and this is how to use it. The Domain Name System When you type in the domain name of a web site you want to visit there's a lot happening behind the scenes. Every web site, every service, almost every device connected to the Internet has a unique numeric address that tells all the other devices where it is — its TCP/IP address.

The Domain Name System (DNS) translates those numeric addresses into something a bit more recognizable and memorable to humans, like, 'www.imore.com' for example. The first time you type in a web address, your Mac pings a DNS server — typically one automatically configured for you by your Internet Service Provider — to find out the TCP/IP address of the server you're trying to connect to. Your Mac builds up a hidden cache file to remember those details later on when you visit the same site again. The Hosts file The Domain Name System and its associated cache is your Mac's standard way of knowing how to get to where it's going on the Internet, but there's another file that can be very useful. It's called the Hosts file, and it can be used to override the default DNS information. There are some practical reasons for why you'd want to use the Hosts file instead of just letting DNS do its thing. Let's say you're testing a development server you're about to deploy, and you'd like to use its domain name instead of the machine's specific IP address.

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