There have been issues with PPPoE and Airport, but I don't recall which
provider it was with. (Actually one of the Airport updates was for this
very issue). I will be on the Apple site a little later and do a search.
But it is a bit odd as the last time I set up a Base Station with
PPPoE -- OS-X 10.1.5, my client was also using MacPoet and turning on
the set-up the way I described in the last one worked fine.
Jerry
On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 11:21 PM, Ward Oldham wrote:
> Hey Jerry,
>
> You now have everything right. However, both wireless capable Macs are
> set
> up to use the Airport with static IP addresses instead of DHCP. (just
> personal preference)
>
> Again, this part of the config works fine. It's only when I set the
> Airport
> base station to PPPoE so that I can input the user name and password,
> thereby eliminating MacPoet. That's when things fail.
>
> I thought I vaguely recollected an issue with Verizon in past MacFixIt
> tech
> issues but, I'm embarrassed to say, I don't subscribe to MacFixIt Pro
> (OK, I
> said it!!).
>
> Ward Oldham
>
>
> on 10/14/2002 11:11 PM, Jerry Yeager at jerry at browseryshop.com wrote:
>
>> Perhaps I missed something. I thought that you said that you had to
>> manage the DSL connection with wired computers by way of the Base
>> Station, which would be hard to do on a Graphite model...I have went
>> back and re-read the post and nope, you didn't say that. So then you
>> are
>> hanging the Base Station off of a hub as a sub-net. I am assuming then
>> in the Base Station config side you have the tab set to connect using
>> PPPoE and filled in the username and service name and name servers. In
>> the network tab are you having the Airport clients share a single IP
>> address via NAT/DHCP?
>>
>> If so then in the client computer you will need to tell it to connect
>> the Airport software via DHCP. But then you will need to turn on
>> AppleTalk so the OS9 and OS-X computers can chat back and forth.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>> On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 06:51 PM, Ward Oldham wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jerry,
>>>
>>> I've only configured Airport base stations to function as routers so
>>> I'm not
>>> sure why you're telling me I need another conventional router. It is
>>> graphite, by the way.
>>>
>>> Again, everything works as it should until I try and integrate the
>>> PPPoE
>>> functions into the base station. It does have that provision.
>>>
>>> Ward Oldham
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/14/02 5:53 PM, "Jerry Yeager" <jerry at browseryshop.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Uhh Ward, I wrote that backwards. But let me ask you this: is it a
>>>> Graphite Base Station or a Snow Base Station?
>>>>
>>>> If it is the Graphite, you will need to get a router so that the
>>>> equipment is like this (Since this is text, I hope the things line
>>>> up!)
>>>>
>>>> modem --- router -- switch --- wired computers, and rest of the
>>>> network
>>>> |---- Airport based computers
>>>>
>>>> If it is the Snow Base Station, then you can pull it off without
>>>> buying
>>>> the router, by using one ethernet connection to go to the modem and
>>>> the
>>>> other to go to the switch (use the base station as a router/dhcp
>>>> server):
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jerry
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 05:27 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How are you configuring the base station? It sounds like you have it
>>>>> set up to act as a router/server. Change it to just be a
>>>>> bridge/dhcpserver. Then the settings will be taken from the modem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jerry
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 01:45 PM, Ward Oldham wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey Folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a customer running OS 9.2.2 with a wireless connection to
>>>>>> his
>>>>>> Airport base station. ?Both base station and dsl modem connect
>>>>>> thru a
>>>>>> standard hub. ?With the base station configured via ethernet,
>>>>>> things
>>>>>> work as expected as long as the customer initiates his connection
>>>>>> first by using MacPoet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We?ve made attempts at configuring his base station via PPPoE in an
>>>>>> effort to eliminate MacPoet being used but no luck. ?In fact, we?ve
>>>>>> observed that the manual TCP/IP settings in the base station change
>>>>>> from their correct settings after attempting to connect via IE
>>>>>> without
>>>>>> using MacPoet first. ?Bummer! ?I haven?t tried changing the static
>>>>>> info. to DHCP because Verizon configured his Mac when it was
>>>>>> directly
>>>>>> connected to his dsl modem with a static IP address.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have the same problem booting into OS X. ?Our network system
>>>>>> preference will allow us to connect via airport and again we try to
>>>>>> configure PPPoE on the base station with the same results. ?Our
>>>>>> problem is worse because I haven?t tracked down an OS X version of
>>>>>> something equivalent to MacPoet as a workaround.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The root of the problem is attaining the correct PPPoE
>>>>>> configuration
>>>>>> within the AirPort base station to work with Verizon. ?We have
>>>>>> installed the Airport version 2.0.4 software under OS 9 (2.0.5
>>>>>> under
>>>>>> OS X).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone know of a solution? ?This should be a no-brainer and so far,
>>>>>> that?s exactly how I feel-No Brain!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ward Oldham
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22
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>>> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22
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>>
>
>
> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22
> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>
>
>
>
The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22
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