Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:48:34 -0500 From: "Henry Miller" <hmiller@intradyn.com> To: "Jonathon McKitrick" <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, "Dick Davies" <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to connect iBook to my BSD network Message-ID: <200410280848340015.0514BB35@mail.intradyn.com> In-Reply-To: <20041028134102.GA79784@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20041028035024.GA73748@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20041028071526.GF15691@lb.tenfour> <20041028134102.GA79784@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On 10/28/2004 at 14:41 Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:15:26AM +0100, Dick Davies wrote: >: * Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> [1049 04:49]: >: Hang on - you got a basestation? What does it plug into, the link to >your ISP >: or one of your ethernet ports on the server? Or does the dhcp server >connect >: through the basestation too? > >We got a base station. It has both a modem serial jack and an ethernet >jack. My network has a wireless hub (with wired jacks as well, of course) >connected to my desktop box. > >: I'm a little confused because the BS will have its own DHCP server if I >remember >: right. > >Really? Okay, I didn't know that. I was looking at the preferences page >on >the apple and trying to figure out how to set up TCP/IP. I was under the >assumption the BS was just another hub, and I had to assign it an address. >Since you got me going with DHCPD, I tried that, but it didn't work. Are >you suggesting all I need to do is patch the BS to my hub and set the >laptop >to get the DHCP address itself? If so, how do I get my desktop box to >recognize the BS? Most base stations have a DHCP server, but you need to turn it on. Read the docs on the base station, then log in and see. I set my base station so that 192.168.1.n , where 128<n<256 is assigned by the BS, and the rest is reserved for static IPs. I'm guessing that this bs has dhcp and NAT built in, because it has a modem port. Even if it didn't though, most of them do. You can use FreeBSD to serve DHCP, but I don't know of any advantage to doing that.
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