I'm a new subscriber to this list, but I subscribe to some of the other lowend lists. I've been instrumental in keeping Macs at our local elementary school. It's a real small school (one class per grade) and the high school is for the most part all windoze. They have been using ibooks with the silver airports but are upgrading some of the class rooms to eMacs with Airport extreme basestation. The base stations hook via ethernet to the rest of the school system. The IT guy is a Math teacher. Heck of nice guy but he is having problems with the new base stations. As I understand it, he can't make the airport network work at all when he connects the school network to the WAN port, and he understand the he shouldn't use the LAN port, but that's the only way it will work at all, but with this setup, it's real sporadic. He came to me, but I'm a little over my head here. I suggested some KB articles, but here was his replay. Does this make sense and can any of your come up with some suggestions?
Been through all of those docs etc. Even according to their info, when airport operates in dhcp/nat mode, bridging between the wan port and wifi is disabled. Therefore, wireless macs can't see wired macs, printers etc. Also, airport extreme will not pass Windows 2000 login traffic from Windows machines correctly regardless of the mode the base station is set to. Summary: Orinoco based graphite airports = good, non-Orinoco based white airports = steaming, stinking, piles of useless excrement in a large lan environment.
John Slavin Kirksville, MO [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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