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At 04:07 PM 8/14/2000 -0400, Perbix Michael wrote:
>We have a number of Airport Base Stations here, and have configured them in
>both Ethernet bridges and doing DHCP/NAT. In both situations we have used
>PC's in the Mix. One user has the Base Station hooked up to a cable modem
>on a HUB, has another PC hooked into the hub, and the rest go wireless, the
>PC gets DHCP from the Base Station, as do the wireless clients, it all works
>as advertised.
Is the cable modem IP static or leased through DHCP? If the latter, how do
you keep the PC from snagging the cable modem IP instead of the Base Station?
I would love do to a configuration like as diagrammed below but I'm a
concerned that the wired DHCP clients might grab the cable modem IP instead
of one from the Base Station's DHCP server. I'm also not certain private IP
packets get past the cable modem to a part of the network that my neighbors
could conceivably packet sniff but that's another matter.
|-----G4 (IP from Base Station DHCP)
|
Cable modem--------Hub-----PC (IP from Base Station DHCP)
|
|-----Base Station (cable modem IP)
| (private network 192.168.100.*)
|
|-----iBook (wireless, IP from Base Station DHCP)
I may end up using the G4 with an AirPort card as a base station but that
means if the G4 reboots the iBook loses its network connection.
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