I desire a Mac to behave as a Wi-Fi entry level, however route the site visitors not on to the upstream web connection, however into an UTM digital machine.
Methodology I at present use works, however requires circuitous setup with a number of shifting components:
- For "web sharing", particular new interface was created utilizing "System settings" -> "Community" -> "Handle Digital Interfaces…" -> Add bridge.
- A pair of digital interfaces was created (
ifconfig feth0 create; ifconfig feth1 create; ifconfig feth0 peer feth1; ifconfig feth0 up; ifconfig feth1 up). - First of the digital interfaces was added to the manually created bridge (
ifconfig bridge1 addm feth0). - In UTM digital machine settings, further bridged community interface was added. However UI solely reveals
en0anden6as potential variants (notfeth1I would like), so I wanted to take away it and re-add utilizing uncooked QEMU arguments:-netdev vmnet-bridged,id=net1,ifname=feth1 -device virtio-net-pci.... This ends in one other bridge being created when the VM begins.
The scheme works as supposed, however I really feel that it may be optimised/simplified considerably.
Particularly:
- How do I keep away from needing to create two bridges as a substitute of only one (or perhaps zero)? Possibly there are different helpful QEMU modes that permits one to connect present bridge?
- How do I keep away from a double NAT and double DHCP servers (one contained in the VM, one made by Mac’s Web sharing)?
- Can I one way or the other activate Web Sharing with partial elements (I need Mac to handle the Wi-Fi half, however not the DHCP / routing / handle translation)? What are methods to activate the entry level mode moreover the official "System Settings" -> "Web sharing"?