From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 11:11:45 PST
On 03/04/03 13:06, "Alan Toops" <alantoops_at_cs.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am impressed with the potential of Soybo and the way this list
> responds to newbie's like me. Great stuff. I just purchased a MP 2100
> with the Lucent silver wireless card, thanks to the list I was able to
> get NIE 2.0, Hiroshi's drivers and the card to work.
>
> Now one question on configuring, whether I select DHCP or Manual config,
> I still get a "DNS server not responding, check address.." I have a snow
> airport at home and an SMC wireless at work?
>
> Any ideas what I have missed?
Well, to use DHCP on your Newton, you have at least to tell him what your
DHCP server IP address is. With your setup, when you're home, you should use
an internet setup that will specify the DHCP server IP address to your ABS
IP address, assuming that it is configured to serve addresses on your
internal network. Then, you would have another setup for when you're at
work, this time specifying the IP address of your SMC wireless router, this
again, assuming that the router is serving IP addresses or acting as the
DHCP server. Once you have those 2 internet setups working, create or modify
existing worksites that you will tie to those 2 setups. So, when you go to
work, switch to your work worksite and the right internet setup will be made
active.
One thing to watch for is that it could be possible that both your ABS and
the SMC router are just relaying the packets from the real DHCP server. It's
hard to tell without having all the details about your setup.
FIY, I have DSL at home. I have a Linksys router that acts as a gateway
between my ISP network and my own network. The router is configured as the
DHCP server. So, in the router config, I setup it up to get its address on
my ISP provided from my ISP's DHCP server. Then, my router distributes IP
addresses to the computers on my network. When one of my computer makes a
request to the internet, my router acts as a gateway. It forwards the packet
to the internet. When the response comes back, it is sent to my router,
which has the only IP addresses visible from the internet, and then the
router is able to determine which computer on my network made the initial
request and routes the incoming response to that computer transparently.
I also have an ABS, but since I already have a DHCP server on my network,
the ABS merely forward incoming packets from/to the Ethernet network to
AirPort computers. Usually, my laptop that I can connect to the Ethernet
network or to my ABS will receive the same IP address from my router's DHCP
server. The ABS is just a gateway.
Hope that helps!
-Laurent.
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