>On 1/19/00 4:05 AM, Alan Harper < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I have an airport base station set up on my B&W G3
>
>This statement is confusing. Do you have a base station AND a G3, a third
>party PCI wireless card? A Base Station literally on TOP of your G3
>(snicker)? Please specify.
Well, you're right, the Airport is on top of the G3. What I meant of
course, was that the airport is attached to an ethernet network thru
an ISDN hub to my desktop.
>
>>and a 2400c with a
> >WaveLan Silver card. Right now I am using fixed IPs assigned by my
>>ISP. It all seems to work great, except that I can't "ping" the 2400c
>>thru the airport. I can see the 2400c from the desktop using
>>Appletalk and file sharing, but it doesn't seem to show up using
> >TCP/IP. Any ideas why?
>
>Can you ping it from the desktop?
Sorry, I _couldn't_ ping it, but now it all works. I don't know what
I am doing right now, but obviously I must have fixed something since
the last time I tried this. Sorry for the confusing (& erroneous)
questions.
>
>>Also, I am about to run out of IPs, so I am thinking of serving IP's
>>using DHCP. I can do this either with my ISDN router, or with the
>>airport, or by purchasing IP/Netrouter. Any thoughts as to the best
>>way to proceed?
>
>You don't need to switch to DHCP to save address. What you would need to
>do is setup NAT (Network Address Translation) by where you have the
>AirPort base station, or the ISDN router, or a software package on one of
>the machines (IPNetRouter, a Vicomsoft product, or Apple's promised
>Airport Software Base Station) bridge to TCP/IP networks and translate.
>Whichever you use to do this I will now refer to as "The Router". The
>Router will use one of your ISP-assigned addresses. It will also maintain
>a second IP address. Typical this will be a "private" address (anything
>that begins with 192.168.x.x). Your other machines will be on the private
>network, and must have their router/gateway configured as the IP address
>of The Router. The Router will then translate any requests they make, get
>and fetch the stuff on the internet and then serve it back. As far as the
>internet is concerned, every request is coming from the IP address of the
>router.
>That's probably a not-so-coherent explanation (I'd love to hear Tim's!),
>but my main point is DHCP is NOT a requirement for this configuration,
>and I would recommend against it with so few machines. DHCP was made to
>ease configuration in large networks. This is not your case. Stick with
>static-IPs for your interal machines as it is a bit more reliable and one
>less thing to troubleshoot in a problematic situation.
I do understand this, and it makes sense. I'll give it a try. Thanks
for all your help.
A
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