Re: Stupid networking question!!


"Roger Merriman" <NEWS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Chris Ridd <chrisridd@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2007-04-29 06:14:38 +0100, steves.inbox@xxxxxxxxx (Steve Hyde) said:

snips

Thanks for the suggestions. The WEP password is definitely correct. I
don't know about the MAC addresses. The setup is in the office so I'll
have to check later but I didn't make any changes to the standard setup
apart from naming the network and providing a WEP key. If it was
configured to only allow certain PCs to join, then I would have
expected
it to also reject the other two.

Any other thoughts?

Can you check the Airport's configuration from one of the wired
computers? Some routers (I've never used an Apple one) will show lists
of connected machines.

MAC address filtering is usually only configurable for wireless
connections, not directly wired computers.

Does the Airport hand out DHCP addresses in a different range over
wireless than Ethernet?

Cheers,

Chris

no it bridges at least the older extreme's and expresses do.

Before you start to debug the wireless connection, take the suspect Mac Mini
and connect it to the router using an ethernet cable. Satisfy yourself that
it acquires an IP address and connects to the router. If necessary disable
any built-in firewall; once you have a connection then configre the firewall
correctly.

Once you have the wired connection then try wireless. As a general rule, if
the Mac Mini does not acquire an IP address from the router using DHCP then
the wireless connection is broken - regardless of what you may think about
the correctness of any WEP key. Try with all the wireless security turned
off - you have the MB Pro which you say does connect by wireless to compare
with.

Once you have in IP address by DHCP, then use Ping to confirm connectivity
from one machine to another; this avoids any potential problems with name
resolution or the like over the network from apparently preventing one
machine from "seeing" another.

--
Graham


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