Re: Printing via Airport base station from wired network?

Fred McKenzie wrote:
> In article <1130860650.284340.33860@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> brucebiz_wi@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I know that I can use the Airport Extreme base station as a print
> > server for my USB printer and send print jobs from Macs on my wireless
> > network. My question is whether I can also do this from the computers
> > on the wired network that the base station connects to.
>
> Bruce-
>
> I'm fairly sure the answer is yes. However there is a monkeywrench in the
> works. You should only have one router for the network, and your cable
> modem box is most likely providing that function.
>
> The more conventional approach is to connect the WAN port of the Airport
> to the cable modem box. The cable modem box only supplies an IP address
> to the Airport, which provides the routing function to the rest of the
> network. The Airport assigns a different set of IP addresses to wireless
> machines as well as to machines connected to its LAN port. The trouble
> with this is that you have more than one wired machine, so an Ethernet hub
> would be needed to interface between the Airport's one LAN port and your
> other wired machines.
>
> It would probably help if you checked out the Apple Airport references
> provided by others. If you proceed by trial-and-error, you may find that
> some things work and others don't, such as not being able to see the
> wireless side from the wired side.
>
> Fred

Thanks Fred,

If I understand you right, the wrinkle is that if there is a router
elsewhere on the network (as there is), the line in to the airport
should go to the LAN port (with the ethernet symbol) and not the WAN
port (the one with the little dots in a circle).

In my case, the cable modem has only one RJ-45 cable coming out of it.
That cable goes directly to a (Vonage) router. The router in turn has
a cable that goint to the AirPort's WAN [sic] port and seems to work
fine for wireless interent. I haven't tried print serving yet. The
wired router also has two cables going to LAN computers, which work
fine for accessing internet.

I think the setup also works with the router cable going to the LAN
port. I thought it interesting that I noticed no difference between
the ports.

IIRC, routers can be daisychained, provided that that you avoid trying
to connect two router input sockets together (maybe it's ok if they go
through a hub). Maybe this would explain why things are working for me
so far. Address translations might complicate the print serving,
though... I will need to test this.

Thanks,
Bruce

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