I Think That Roger Fajman Wrote In An eMail At 4:58 PM -0400 of 5/26/00:

>  > These are absolutely standard 11Mb/s IEEE 802.11DS base stations, not
>  > some proprietary Apple thing. PC users can get 802.11DS cards from
>  > companies like Lucent: <http://www.wavelan.com/>
>
>Is there a way to turn off the NAT in the AirPort access points?

Yep, I have set up a lot of them as plain wireless bridges with no IP 
address assigning, as well as using its built-in DHCP server

>We've had trouble here with PCs using them because the NAT implementation
>doesn't handle NETBIOS.  Also, given the general dislike of many people
>in the IETF for NAT, it may not be something that the IETF wants to use
>itself.

Except for getting a Mac with an AirPort card to setup up the thing 
properly, you're more or less out of luck.  I know that there's a 
Java-based admin tool, but I don't think it goes that deep into the 
config settings, nor do I remember the URL off the top of my head


--jon


Jon Malis
Independent Network Consultant
Malis Consulting
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