Re: DOA Airport Extreme?

On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:01:22 +1200, dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (David
Empson) wrote:

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Replacement turned up today (I'd taken it to my local Apple certified
thingy, they have to test and request a fresh one from Apple - I gave
it to them on Wednesday), and it Just Works.

By the way, I bought the latest Airport Extreme myself, as a local
dealer had it on special (brought the price back to what it was two
years ago when I bought my existing Airport Extreme 802.11n Gigabit
Ethernet).

I now understand how the simultaneous dual-band and guest newtork setup
works.

I've not experimented with the guest network. Will it still do as it
is supposed to when I'm on "bridge" mode? I would expect not...

Well, after I switched it from DHCP mode to Bridge, it does. It's not
at all clear that that is how to make it a pure AP and kill the DHCP
server, which was making a right mess all over the network.

Agreed. That is a point Apple could clarify in the manual setup. It is
much easier if you step through the guided configuration.

I had the wrong concept in my head while doing the initial guided
setup, I was thinking "DHCP - that's to give the AE its own IP address
from the house DHCP server, so I'll want that". No no no.

Before setting it to Bridge, I tried giving the AE a second DHCP range
to handle in the same network (network 10.0.0.0/24, already serving
10.0.0.20-40, AE range 10.0.0.41-50), but that gave the AE the IP
address 10.0.0.1. Which it didn't bother checking was already in use
elsewhere. Grrr.

Fortunately the Airport Utility connection uses some other protocol to
talk to it, so it was fixable. But bad move.

(Now that I have, can I use the "wan" port as another normal switch
port, by the way?)

Yes. Out of habit I still use that port for the "upstream" connection
but it isn't necessary.

Thanks.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire,c18
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