[RndTbl] airport extreme

[Dan Martin]

Thanks Bill!

It seems to work.  Took me quite a while to find where I could manually 
enter the IP address of the Mac's own wireless adapter, harder than 
actually configuring the router.

After giving them both local LAN IP addresses, I have internet access.

I'll leave transferring files between PC and Mac for another day.

Bill Reid wrote:
> Dan Martin wrote:
>
>>
>> Is there a simple way to use this device as a simple wired and 
>> wireless 'switch' on my LAN?  or should I simply throw in the towel 
>> and let the base station be a router and firewall, and do away with a 
>> gateway computer?
>>
>
> There is no problem doing double Nat but you should be able to set it 
> up just a switch.
>
> - turn off DHCP on your airport.
> - make sure the LAN network is the same subnet as your current LAN.
> - assign an unique address to the airport router within your current 
> LAN subnet
> - make sure the wireless Mac's gateway address is pointing to your 
> current gateway.
>
> -- Bill
>
>


-- 
  -Dan

Dr. Dan Martin, MD, CCFP, BSc, BCSc (Hon), MSc

GP Hospital Practitioner
Computer Scientist
ummar143 at shaw.ca
(204) 831-1746
answering machine always on