Re: How to connect iBook to my BSD network
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:15:26AM +0100, Dick Davies wrote: : * Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1049 04:49]: : : Hi all, : : I have a 4.10 desktop with a wireless hub that my laptop connects to. It : works perfectly. : : Hey boy - how're things? Great! Wondered where you've been. :-) How's the little one? : Hang on - you got a basestation? What does it plug into, the link to your ISP : or one of your ethernet ports on the server? Or does the dhcp server connect : through the basestation too? We got a base station. It has both a modem serial jack and an ethernet jack. My network has a wireless hub (with wired jacks as well, of course) connected to my desktop box. : I'm a little confused because the BS will have its own DHCP server if I remember : right. Really? Okay, I didn't know that. I was looking at the preferences page on the apple and trying to figure out how to set up TCP/IP. I was under the assumption the BS was just another hub, and I had to assign it an address. Since you got me going with DHCPD, I tried that, but it didn't work. Are you suggesting all I need to do is patch the BS to my hub and set the laptop to get the DHCP address itself? If so, how do I get my desktop box to recognize the BS? jm -- My other computer is your Windows box. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to connect iBook to my BSD network
On 10/28/2004 at 14:41 Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:15:26AM +0100, Dick Davies wrote: : * Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1049 04:49]: : Hang on - you got a basestation? What does it plug into, the link to your ISP : or one of your ethernet ports on the server? Or does the dhcp server connect : through the basestation too? We got a base station. It has both a modem serial jack and an ethernet jack. My network has a wireless hub (with wired jacks as well, of course) connected to my desktop box. : I'm a little confused because the BS will have its own DHCP server if I remember : right. Really? Okay, I didn't know that. I was looking at the preferences page on the apple and trying to figure out how to set up TCP/IP. I was under the assumption the BS was just another hub, and I had to assign it an address. Since you got me going with DHCPD, I tried that, but it didn't work. Are you suggesting all I need to do is patch the BS to my hub and set the laptop to get the DHCP address itself? If so, how do I get my desktop box to recognize the BS? Most base stations have a DHCP server, but you need to turn it on. Read the docs on the base station, then log in and see. I set my base station so that 192.168.1.n , where 128n256 is assigned by the BS, and the rest is reserved for static IPs. I'm guessing that this bs has dhcp and NAT built in, because it has a modem port. Even if it didn't though, most of them do. You can use FreeBSD to serve DHCP, but I don't know of any advantage to doing that. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to connect iBook to my BSD network
: Most base stations have a DHCP server, but you need to turn it on. : Read the docs on the base station, then log in and see. I set my base Hmmm. The whole issue is we got this without docs from Ebay. : station so that 192.168.1.n , where 128n256 is assigned by the BS, : and the rest is reserved for static IPs. I'm guessing that this bs Can you give me a quick idea how to do that? : has dhcp and NAT built in, because it has a modem port. Even if it : didn't though, most of them do. Is it straightforward to use the BS to dial in to an ISP? jm -- My other computer is your Windows box. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to connect iBook to my BSD network
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004, Henry Miller wrote: ... Most base stations have a DHCP server, but you need to turn it on. Read the docs on the base station, then log in and see. I set my base station so that 192.168.1.n , where 128n256 is assigned by the BS, and the rest is reserved for static IPs. I'm guessing that this bs has dhcp and NAT built in, because it has a modem port. Even if it didn't though, most of them do. You can use FreeBSD to serve DHCP, but I don't know of any advantage to doing that. One advantage of doing dhcp on FreeBSD or other Real System(tm) is that one can map mac addresses to specific host names. You also have considerably more flexibility in specifying name servers, routes, etc. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc. UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``It is surprising how much new stuff users find that developers never do. You put a copy in front of a normal user and they find all these bugs that you would think developers would find. The real users and developers are completely different species as far as I am concerned.'' --Linux creator Linus Torvalds ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to connect iBook to my BSD network
Hi all, I have a 4.10 desktop with a wireless hub that my laptop connects to. It works perfectly. I just bought my wife an iBook with an AirPort wireless card and base. I have dhcp set up on my server, but I don't have to use it if it's not the best way. How can I configure both computers to talk? jm -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to connect iBook to my BSD network
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 27, 2004, at 10:50 PM, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Hi all, I have a 4.10 desktop with a wireless hub that my laptop connects to. It works perfectly. I just bought my wife an iBook with an AirPort wireless card and base. I have dhcp set up on my server, but I don't have to use it if it's not the best way. How can I configure both computers to talk? What do you mean by talk? I have a 15 Powerbook, and DHCP running on my OpenBSD router, and it picks up an IP just fine. The PB uses NFS just fine. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bob.bomar.us - --- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFBgHSl9Jm/aTrtdKoRAuSpAKCCHwvWDc/FXpzHGmfIbrQ3E5vt6ACeJld1 noq8cRCW862A6Gnwoexecd4= =qkNH -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
