Kris, I am not sure I understand. How is the mac going to assign different IP's to a wireless router if it is plugged into one of the LAN ports?
The router is not expecting data to be flowing 'into' one of these ports. > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Internet Connection Sharing Help > Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:31:31 -0500 > > > > On May 14, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Mac G4 wrote: > > > Yeah - Ethernet to WAN on the router didn't work. > > This is because you can only have one router, and when you use > Internet Sharing, the Mac is acting as the router. I once had an > Airport Extreme 802.11 G base station that blew out the WAN port due > to a lightning strike. I also had a wired router. I was able to allow > the wired router to handle the WAN connection from my cable modem and > distribute the IP addresses via DHCP and then connect it directly to a > LAN port on the Airport with the Airport's DHCP disabled and have full > wireless access. > > You need to attach the cable to any LAN port, and not the WAN port, > and then disable DHCP on the router so that the Mac hands out the IP > addresses. When I use Internet Sharing on my Tiger 10.4 Macs the IP > addresses are in the 192.168.2.x range. My router which is before the > Mac that is doing the sharing is an Apple Express 802.11n and assigns > addresses in the 10.0.1.x range, so I believe you should see the > 192.168.2.x range for Internet Sharing irrespective of whatever IP > address the sharing Mac may have from your internet connection. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
