----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:13
AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] WAP11
Problem
I
have also a problem, but it's not a problem really.
Last
night, I started playing with my AP about midnight. I have wired LAN, so I
plugged AP into switch and installed SNMP config utility. And read manual
which was a bit confusing and suggesting to set subnet mask the same like
on
wired LAN and keep IP address outside.
Didn't have sense but I followed instructions and, of course, didn't
work. I was tired, and went to bed.
Today, I downloaded manual from their site, and this one has more
sense.
I
suppose that Doug has the same configuration like me. He got AP and card
(not
cards), so I suppose that he wants to connect AP to his wired
LAN.
There are two tools to configure AP, USB and SNMP. I prefer SNMP
because I don't have to bring PC for configuring AP within the range of USB
cable.
Especially, if AP is mounted somewhere high and cable is 1.5m
only.
So I
installed SNMP util and it should find AP, but it
can't.
On
my network I have server with ADSL modem and ICS. ICS works in a way that
machine where it runs becomes a small DHCP server, that machine
automatically
gets IP address 192.168.0.1. and subnet mask
255.255.255.0.
Therefore, all the machines on my LAN must be within that subnet.
They
should be DHCP enabled and ICS machine will assign them IP address from the
pool 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.254.
By
default, AP has IP address 192.168.1.250 and that's why my laptop cannot
talk
to it and AP cannot be found.
What
I plan to do is:
Change my laptop IP settings from DHCP enabled to static
192.168.1.251
with subnet mask 255.255.255.0.
Then
it should be able to find AP. Then change settings of AP, from static
address
to DHCP enabled.
When
AP reboots, it should obtain IP address from DHCP server (ICS machine) and
become a member of my subnet.
My
laptop settings could be moved back to DHCP enabled.
I'm
pretty sure that it will work then.