Topic: airportbasestation and e-smith

[erik de wild]

Hello,

I've installed e-smith on a Pentium I 133 PC and the installationproces run smoothly. I want to use my Apple Ibook as a workstation in my new network. The Ibook (300 mhz, MAC OS 8.6) was connected to the internet by a wireless connection to an airportbasestation connected to a cable modem.

Now I have installed e-smith as server and gateway. I have connected the server to the cable modem (external) and to a hub (internal). The server passed the internet connection test and I can read the online manual with the lynx browser. When I connect the airportbase station to the hub and I tried to connect to the internet with my Ibook with airportcard in it it doesn't work.

My question is:
-Is it possible to get this configuration working and if the answer is yes what is the procedure.

An airport base station is a kind of router and gateway with its own DHCP server in the range 10.0.1.2/10.0.1.12. The "external" side of the airportbasestation can have any IP-number. Until now it has the static number the ISP gave but it is possible to work with dynamic numbers.  

Thanks for reading my question.

With friendly regards

Erik de Wild

[Kelvin Lee]

Erik,

Did you remember to reconfigure the Airport base station after you took the cable modem off it and put on the ESSG ?

You probably need to set the Airport base station to bridge mode and disable it's DHCP server. Use the one from ESSG.

Kelvin

[Nick Texidor]

I have an e-smith gateway working with an airport base station connected so that our macs can use the wireless networking.

Our Base Station is connected to the hub, in the Airport Admin software, we have allocated the base station an IP address that fits in with the e-smith server, ie, 192.168.0.66.  The Base Station is set up to provide IP addresses via DHCP to the Mac clients.  I have had no problems with this setup, it all seems to work very smoothly.

We have NOT got DHCP running on the e-smith server though,  I did read somewhere that you should only have one DHCP server on the network!

Hope this helps a little

[erik de wild]

Thank you for your answers. Now I no that it is possible to use my apple basestation. I had reconfigure my airportbasestation but it is possible that i've made a mistake. I will try it again.

I don't know if it is possible to disable the dhcp service in the airportbasestation. I will check the documentation.

At his moment I have guests in the house and they use the room where the cablemodem and the server are placed. I wil restart working on my little network in the weekend. If I found a sulution or have further questions I will post a new message.

With friendly regards,


Erik de Wild

[Micheal Kelly]

I use the Airport base station in a similar configuration and it works well for me.  Here's how I have it set up:

1. DHCP via e-smith server (also had it working w/Airport handing out DHCP, but make sure BOTH aren't setup for DHCP)

2. Airport set to Bridge Wireless/Ethernet - this way, the 802.11 wireless network appears to be an extension of the wired LAN, rather than having a separate network address.  If you're using DHCP on the e-smith server, make sure that the Airport is *NOT* set to do NAT (network address translation).  If so, the wireless systems will not get DHCP addresses.

[erik de wild]

Thank you for your mail. I have installed e-smith with dhcp-server but now I think that was not such a good idee. I want to use my old printer (hp400) and the harddisk on my PC. I just have one I-book  so the network is very small. Maybe I will add a window workstation to the network. I'm gonna reinstall e-smith without the dhcp server.

Friendly regards


Erik de Wild

[Dan Brown]

You don't have to reinstall just to turn off the dhcp server; just go through the console configuration system and turn it off.

[erik de wild]

I have turn of the dhcp server and configure my airport base station.
IP 192.168.1.100
domain name = local.edw
subnet 255.255.255.0
router address = 192.168.1.1
name server address = 192.168.1.1
starting domain name = local.edw
additional search domains = local.edw
I kept the other fields blank in the TCP/IP control panel on my
Ibook (mac os 8.6) and I used this to configure my airport
basestation.
I connected the airport and the internal ethernetcard on the
server with a hub
When I ping from the console of the server to the basestation
(ping 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.100) I've got a message
Warning: no SO_TIMESTAMP support, falling back to SIOCGSTAMP
The internal ethernetcard is an ethernetcard with a Realtek 9139
, as recognized during the instalationprecudere (Intellinet 10/100)
Does anybody know what this message mean. Can this be the reason
why I can't get the server in the air. friendly regards    Erik de Wild

[Rob Hillis]

erik de wild wrote:

> When I ping from the console of the server to the basestation
> (ping 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.100) I've got a message
> Warning: no SO_TIMESTAMP support, falling back to SIOCGSTAMP

[...]

> Does anybody know what this message mean. Can this be the
> reason
> why I can't get the server in the air. friendly regards  

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