At my office I plugged my Airport into a hub, and the hub into the router (SDSL). This way the airport would serve my Tibook, and the hub would carry the remainder of the network. If the Airport is set up with the router IP address on the upstream side the airport base station will DHCP to the remainder of the Macs. At home I have the network on static ip addresses, which you can do also, as long as you're downstream of the airport it takes a little more care in setting up tho...
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/05/02 03:56PM >>> Not that this has anything to do with your problem but, what Airport hardware and software are you running? Did you call Apple? on 2/5/02 3:22 PM, Mathieu Mauser at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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? -- MacNetwork is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... XRouter Pro | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! Dr. Bott | Only $199 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/MIH130.html> Now shipping! Farallon Wireless SkyLINE PCI Card for Mac Desktops! <http://www.farallon.com/le/skyline/pci/index.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MacNetwork list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/macnet.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macnetwork%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com> -- MacNetwork is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... XRouter Pro | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! Dr. Bott | Only $199 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/MIH130.html> Now shipping! Farallon Wireless SkyLINE PCI Card for Mac Desktops! <http://www.farallon.com/le/skyline/pci/index.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MacNetwork list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/macnet.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macnetwork%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
