Panther's adaptability may be screwing things up - in attempting to provide seamless connectivity no matter where you are, it has a tendency to flip through all permutations of the available hook-ups. Often all that is needed is to limit Panther's choices:
1 - On the iBook, look at System Preferences/Sharing/Internet. 'Share your connection from' should be the internal modem. 'To computers using' should only have Built-In Ethernet checked.
2 - On the iBook, System Preferences/Network/Network Port Configurations should have only the internal modem and the built-in ethernet checked. On the G3's, only the built-in ethernet should be checked.
3 - On the G3's, System Preferences/Network/Built-In Ethernet, click on the TCP/IP tab. Make sure all the fields are blank (the one option here is to try the 'Search Domains' field as either blank or with your dial-up service providers base url - AOL users, for instance, might put aol.com here).
4 - Press the Apply Now button on the lower right corner of TCP/IP preference pane now.
5 - On the G3's, System Preferences/Network/Network status will now show connection status and IP address. If this shows no connection, now would be the time to shut all the machines down, then bring up the iBook and its dial-up connection, then power up the G3's and see if you get a connection.
6 - If all else fails, fix yourself a big drinky-drink and call Cory Doctorow or Joey DeVilla for their m4d netwerking skillz.
Good Luck
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