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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / July 2004Airport Extreme to ethernet bridging?
Hi, all. I'm having a bit of a problem with an Airport Extreme setup. It's probably pretty basic, but so far the solution has managed to evade me. It has to do with wireless-to-ethernet bridging. I've got two computers -- a G4 desktop and a G4 PowerBook with an Airport Extreme card. Both machines are running OS X 10.3.4. Internet access is via DSL. The DSL modem runs into the WAN port on a Linksys 4-port router. Also connected to the router via straight-through cat 5 patch cable are the G4 desktop unit and an Airport Extreme base. The patch cable from the router to the base station is going into the base station's WAN port. There's also an HP 2100 laser plugged into the router. I can access the Internet from both the PowerBook and the G4, so it would appear that everything is functioning correctly. The G4 can "see" the printer. However, I can't get the PowerBook to "see" the G4 or printer, or vice-versa. On older Airport bases there was a checkbox labeled "Enable Airport to ethernet bridging". According to the docs, this is automatically enabled in the Airport Extreme base, but so far no good. What am I missing? Any thoughts are greatly appreciated! TIA, --Bill Pulver bill (_at_) quinn-pulver (_dot_) com > The patch cable from the > router to the base station is going into the base station's WAN port. I think this is the heart of your problem. See below. > On older Airport bases there was a checkbox labeled "Enable Airport to > ethernet bridging". According to the docs, this is automatically > enabled in the Airport Extreme base, but so far no good. I believe this would bridge between the wireless network and the AE's lan port. Bridging to the wan port doesn't make a lot of sense -- that would be routing, not bridging. > What am I missing? Any thoughts are greatly appreciated! Seems to me you want to wire this a bit differently. I think you want the LinkSys to act purely as a switch, leaving all the routing to the AE. In other words, connect the LinkSys wan port to the AE's lan port; connect the dsl modem to the AE's wan port; and disable routing in the LinkSys if you can. Effectively what you're doing is giving the AE multiple lan ports, which is all you really need. If you can't disable routing in the LinkSys, this should still work, just a little less efficiently. NB: I don't own an Airport Extreme myself, so take all this with a grain of salt... > > The patch cable from the > > router to the base station is going into the base station's WAN port. > > I think this is the heart of your problem. See below. Right, the line needs to go from one of the Linksys router's 4 LAN ports to the AEBS LAN port. This lets all clients including the AEBS get it's network ID from the Linksys router. > Seems to me you want to wire this a bit differently. I think you want > the LinkSys to act purely as a switch, leaving all the routing to the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > disable routing in the LinkSys, this should still work, just a little > less efficiently. That could work too, but simply changing where the Linksys plugs into the AEBS will solve it. > That could work too, but simply changing where the Linksys plugs into the > AEBS will solve it. No it won't. If the base station's default configuration is left unchanged and its LAN port is connected to a LAN port on the Linksys router, there will be be two DHCP servers on the local Ethernet network. If DHCP is disabled on the base station, there will be no need to change ports: both of its Ethernet ports will function as LAN ports. |
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