Re: [RndTbl] airport extreme

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:

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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