Re: Multiple Wireless Access Points

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 02:23:20 GMT, "Joe DiGiovanni"
<mrcpuhead@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Thanks! I found the WAP can be either configured strictly as an access
>point, or as a router. Either way, when I configure it w/ an IP address in
>the same subnet as the LAN wired computers, including the Win2K server, I
>can connect to the WAP from a wireless client, but the client doesn't get
>it's IP from the Win2K DHCP server. Instead, it gets an autoconfig-type
>address.

Is there some reason you haven't bothered to disclose the maker and
model number of this mystery WAP? By autoconfigurated, I presume it's
169.254.xxx.xxx. (Hint: Numbers, not creative descriptions).

>The WAP, when just an access point, only allows me to specify the IP and
>subnet mask. When router functions are enabled, I can set WAN IP settings,
>including IP addr, subnet mask, DNS server addr.

In the WAP mode, the IP address is only for administration and
configuration and has nothing to do with connectivity. Access points
do bridging and no nothing of IP addresses.

>The Win2K server is 192.168.0.3. The default gateway is 192.168.0.1. The
>WAP is 192.168.0.5, and it's DHCP server capability is disabled. The WAP's
>DNS is set to 192.168.0.3.

You're IP's look fine if the W2K server is acting as a DHCP server and
DNS server. I'll assume that your gateway router is 192.168.0.1. It
*should* work. So do some simple troubleshooting.

>Any ideas why the client isn't getting through to the Win2K DHCP server?

Nope. Can you ping the W2K server from somewhere?

Is there some kind of IP filtering going on at the W2K server (as in
personal firewall)?

Download and play with this free DHCP query thing:
> http://www.weirdsolutions.com/weirdSolutions/files/products/desktopSoftware/desktopQueryTool/querytool_free.exe


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