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As you may remember I started out using MacBook Air, but when I needed an ethernet port I decided to use my MacBook Pro. Now when I have everything setup and running on my MacBook Pro I will give the MacBook Air another chance. The first thing I had to do was buying a Thunderbolt to Gigabit ethernet adapter and connect it to the MacBook Air.
Setup a static IP address
Select System Preferences and then Network. Choose Manually configure IPv4 and fill in the IP address: 192.168.33.1
Find the port name
Open a terminal and type ifconfig.
The ethernet port's logical name is en6. There are only two things we have to change from the MacBook Pro setup:
The TFTP server
The DHCP server
The TFTP server
Select en6: 192.168.33.1 as the TFTP server host address.
The DHCP server
The server is called bootpd and does both DHCP and BOOTP. These instructions just describe using it for DHCP, however. To start, you need to create a configuration file for the server. The file should be stored in /etc/bootpd.plist.
Here's a sample configuration file (observe en6 instead of en0) :
This file sets up the DHCP server to run on the interface named en6, which is the Thunderbolt Gigabit ethernet port. It assumes that that port has been configured with the IP address 192.168.33.1, and dishes out addresses from 192.168.33.2 to 192.168.33.254
If you happened to have an extra display laying around, you can hook it up and have the host on one display and the guest on the other display. Like this.
Unclutter my desk
My desk started to look a bit messy so I decided to buy a Belkin Thunderbolt dock. It has connections for: