After yesterdays experiments I convinced myself that the Airport Extreme Base Station was the source of all my problems.
Google showed that an number of persons had trouble with the 7.5.2 firmware. I decided to backdown to version 7.4.2 of the firmware. After the firmware loaded and I checked the configuration I powered down and restarted the router. After it came up I *still* could not connect to the VPN. I decided to to a hard reset of the rascal, much to my regret. The router refused to come up and I could not do anything about it. Any attempt to check the configuration lead to a hang while the configuration was trying be be read. I unplugged the rascal and when up to the attic and got my old Linksys Wireless 54G router. After a bit of struggle I got back on line but the linksys would not allow connection to the VPN... I realized I would have to modify my IP change motifier so I dug out a old perl program and modified it for the newer linksys router, enclosed here for your amusement: #!/usr/bin/perl # # fetch the current ip address from the linksys router... # Jerry LeVan ([email protected]) # Mac OS X 10.1.4 # May 12,2002 # # Modified for Linksys Wireless 54G # Jan 12, 2011 my ($pattern,$thePage,$theAddress,$wan,$ip,$theip); #define the pattern we are looking for... $theip = '(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)'; # Fetch the page but cut it down to one line $thePage =`curl -s -u :<adminpassword> http://192.168.1.1/Status_Router.asp | grep -A 1 "IP Address": | tail -1` ; # Look for the current IP embedded in the Status Page if ($thePage =~ m|$theip|) { $theAddress = $1; print $theAddress,"\n"; # here you could mail the address ... } else { print "Problem getting address...\n"; } ********************************* Before I could finish the project, I had to stop and fix my wife some supper... { time passes } I came back and started hammering on the router... I reloaded the newest firmware several times and still could not get a configuration window. I remembered I had a saved config file and was able to load it and that seemed to make the router happy. I was able to go in and reenter all of the data by hand and when I restarted I got a shiny green light. I grabbed the iPad and this time I was able to connect to the VPN over 3G :) , ditto for the iPhone... All is good until the router has another memory failure. Whew, Jerry_______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
