Hi there
Last week I set an Airport Base Station for my dad, but it didn't work
out as well as I'd hoped... hmmm...
He has a cable modem and I was hoping to set up the network to have a
private LAN in 10.0.1.1 range for the airport-card computers (an iMac
and an iBook) and a wired network with a PC and a Mac also.
In my own home I have a cable modem and a router and it all works very
well. I know the principal is the same but the airport base station is
a little different.
Using my own setup, plugging one other machine into the router allows
me to configure my router through it's webserver and put in the client
ID and voila, all done!
but with the base station, you need to connect via airport and
configure it with the admin utility (which I did) but the confusing
part for me is when I set the airport base station to use DHCP to
connect to the cable modem and set up the private lan using airport
for the rest of the machine... the iMac then losing the connection to
the base station... it's all so weird.
I read the manuals, "designing airport networks" and I gonna read
again and again to see what I'm missing....
my set up at home:
cable modem --> router --> private LAN
all set up with wires (cat-5) and ethernet ports
my dad's set up:
cable mode --> airport base station -->airport --> iMac/ibook
-->ethernet port --> pc/mac
but the configuring thru airport part works but then it doesn't
and the strangest thing about the whole procedure
in the manual it says if you are using a cable modem with DHCP do not
turn on DHCP in the airport base station, but the only way i could get
the airport equipped macs onto the outside world was to configure them
using dhcp, which to me means stealing extra dynamic IPs from the
modem and not using a private LAN...
any ideas?
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Mat X
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