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49 lines
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<title>WiFi workaround</title>
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<body style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" alink="#008000"
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<h2 style="COLOR: rgb(0,128,0)">WiFi workaround</h2>
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<p style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Overview:
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</p>
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<p>A (heavyweight) workaround for the WiFi issue.</p>
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<p style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Details:
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<p>Installing a virtualization solution like the (free) VMware
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Workstation Player provides a virtual ethernet card. Then installing
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WinPcap inside the virtual machine allows access to the internet via
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WiFi from AppleWin.</p>
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<p>VMware allows you to configure the virtual ethernet card in two ways:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Bridged, this means that the virtual Uthernet card becomes visible
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with its MAC address in the WiFi net and that an Apple II DHCP client
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gets its address from the usual DHCP server (typically a WAN router).
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<li>NAT, this means that the virtual Uthernet card is part of a virtual
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network with three participants:
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<ul>
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<li>A virtual Ethernet card added by VMware to the "outside" (aka host) Windows.
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<li>The virtual Ethernet card used by the "inside" (aka guest) Windows.
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<li>The virtual Uthernet card.
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</ul>
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<br>
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That virtual network has its own IP address range and has its own DHCP
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server (being part of VMware). An Apple II DHCP client gets its
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address from that DHCP server.
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</ul>
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<p>Another positive aspect of that "emulation inside vitualization"
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approach is that the "inside" (aka guest) Windows always has just one
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single network interface: that virtual ethernet card mentioned above.
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And that interface has always the same name (even when switching
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between Bridged and NAT) so one never has to fiddle with network
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setting of the emulators using WinPcap.</p>
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