Is there anyway to make a Macbook a router?
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AmazingGracePlayer Notebook Deity
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Be more specific. Make it a router and continue using it as a Macbook as well? Making it purely a router?
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I doubt it would work. The only motor in a MacBook is for the CD drive or the hard drives themselves. Both spin pretty fast, but add the weight of a bit and they just won't be able to do even simple roundovers.
A DeWalt is cheaper and will cut wood better than a Mac.
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I assume the two above posts are jokes.
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OK...I just got this mental picture of a Macbook with a bit sticking out of the bottom when I saw the title...couldn't help myself. But I do own that DeWalt (and I can't get it connected to the internet...)
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I love the comment KimoT, as my wife is a cabinet maker and disagrees, she says that dewalt is bad for burning out motors when doing 5 piece doors, she prefers the 2.5hp Ryobi or a 3 hp Porter Cable. for SERIOUS work a 30HP spindle in a CNC ..... and yes Hep they were GOOD jokes as I keep getting told that my sissy Cisco untits would make crappy routers
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If you were in windows, you could plug your macbook into the router/modem/what-have-you and the enable the laptop to share internet through it's wireless card.. Not sure how it's done in mac land.
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On a more serious note, there are a few Linux distros that are designed to run as firewalls/routers. One of these might do what you are looking for.
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I've personally used Freesco, Coyote, and currently am using IPCop. Tried monowall without luck (one of my cards isn't supported).
I was waiting to see what the OP wants to do exactly though. -
AmazingGracePlayer Notebook Deity
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Just for my own curiosity, why would you use something so valuable as only a router? My router might as well be a cisco with the quality and features it has, and it's a P3 500MHz compaq armada.
Either way it's an intel mac so any of the distros I mentioned earlier should work - I'd suggest IP cop since the other two are floppy based. You'll probably need a USB NIC though. -
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Okay, you can use the linux distros IF you use USB NIC's as linux isnt too fond of the onboard, your best bet is actually a sub $40 router, and ANY cheapo D-link, Linksys, Asus, SMC, will do nicely and have the college change your assigned MAC to the router or have the router use your computers MAC address ( MAC Cloning )
using OSX as a router for internet sharing .... NOT so good. But can be done easily enough in XP or higher if you run it through paralels and enable ICS -
I'd suggest throwing an extra NIC into an XP machine, doing internet connection sharing on it, and just putting a switch on the other end.
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AmazingGracePlayer Notebook Deity
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Tell ya what, I got a pile of extra routers around this joint? want one send me a PM .. no charge or shipping
Making a macbook a router?
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by AmazingGracePlayer, Oct 16, 2009.