Baffled by Airport

[Francis X. Maier]

Bill,

It's a bit of a weird setup, but it works for everything but my Linux
iMac; and it even worked for the Linux iMac in the past when I was using
the DWL-122 USB wireless adapter.  I switched to the Airport card after
a failed recompile.  I thought it would be "easier" than getting the
DWL-122 back up and running.  ;-(

Anyway, according to Qwest, my NETWORK is 168.103.XX.0 and my BROADCAST
is 168.103.XX.7.  My Actiontech router is assigned 168.103.XX.6.  That
leaves me five static IPs to play with.

I assign 168.103.XX.1 to my Airport Extreme base station.  Then I set
the base station to use DHCP (but not NAT) to distribute IPs
168.103.XX.2 through 168.103.XX.5 to the other units on my LAN.  These
include:

-- a G4 connected by ethernet to the base station; manually assigned
168.103.XX.2 with the base station as its gateway;
-- a G5 wirelessly connected; manually assigned 168.103.XX.3 with the
base station as its gateway;
-- an Xbox wirelessly connected; manually assigned 168.103.XX.4 with the
base station as its gateway;
-- my troublesome Linux iMac.

I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.  My base station is not
encrypted; the base station and iMac are set to the same channels (10);
and the base station is broadcasting with an "802.11b/g compatible"
setting.

Any sense of the problem?  The Actiontech router is really out of the
picture in this setup.

Longman, Bill wrote:

> The broadcast address ending .7 is correct for a 29 bit netmask. In
> fact,
> six of the netmasks for this network range 169.103.x.y, y do not equal
> 255.
> They are 7 (twice), 15, 31, 63 and 127.
>
> Can you give us a diagram of the setup? Which interfaces are connected
>
> where? I'm assuming the actiontec is giving out the IP addresses, so
> what
> are the other machines getting for their gateway. I bet it's .6, not
> .1,
> since that's the exit point of your network, not your Airport.
>
> Bill
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Hamilton [mailto:gregh@object-craft.com.au]
> > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 10:08 PM
> > To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> > Subject: Re: Baffled by Airport
> >
> >
> > The BROADCAST value looks pretty unlikely, probably should be
> > BROADCAST=168.103.XX.255
> >
> > I also have these two settings. No idea what they are.
> > USERCTL=yes
> > PEERDNS=no
> >
> > You haven't set a KEY. Do you use a WEP key? If so then run the
> Apple
> > AirPort Admin Utility in OS X, connect to the base station and
> select
> > 'Equivalent Password' from the 'Base Station' menu. The value it
> > displays is the hex equivalent of the text passphrase you use as
> your
> > WEP encryption key. Copy this value to the 'KEY=' line in your
> config
> > file.
> >
> > On 06/04/2004, at 2:46 PM, Francis X. Maier wrote:
> >
> > > I'm running YDL 3.01 on an iMac with an Airport (802.11b)
> > card.  The
> > > card appears as configured and active, but I can't make an
> internet
> > > connection.
> > >
> > > Background:  I lease eight static IPs from Qwest.  Five are
> > usable by
> > > me.  Three are required by the system -- including the IP my
> > > Actiontech router uses (168.103.XX.6).
> > >
> > > I assign 168.103.XX.1 to my Airport Extreme base station,
> > which then
> > > operates as the gateway for my other computers.
> > >
> > > The Xbox and the two Macs on my wireless LAN system work great,
> > > manually configured with the base station as their gateway.
> > >
> > > My Linux box is the problem.  Here's my current
> > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file:
> > >
> > > DEVICE=eth1
> > > BOOTPROTO=static
> > > BROADCAST=168.103.XX.7
> > > IPADDR=168.103.XX.5
> > > NETMASK=255.255.255.248
> > > NETWORK=168.103.XX.0
> > > ONBOOT=yes
> > > CHANNEL=1
> > > TYPE=Wireless
> > > MODE=Auto
> > > KEY=
> > > RATE=Auto
> > > GATEWAY=168.103.XX.1
> > > ESSID=dannyman1
> > >
> > > Can somebody steer me in the right direction?
> > >
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