Re: [MLUG] linksys WAP/router dhcp problems...

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Rick Buford wrote:

> It sounds like you have:
> Internet to
> Linksys router to
> Wireless WAP to
> miscellaneous machines

Not quite.  The "Internet" is a mediacom cable modem, and the router and
the WAP are the same box (this is the linksys
router/WAP/4-port-switch/bread-slicer device).
 
> and the problem is occuring on the other side of the WAP, but other
> machines (wired?) are working ok? Does the WAP have some software to
> check: 1) connection to the router, and 2) wireless connection to the
> Mac?

OK, so the other machines were okay, and it was only when the machine 
whose connection to the 'net I *have* to keep up got a bogus IP address
did I dare take drastic measures against the WAP/router itself.  Which 
worked (see response to Mikhail's reply).  

To check the wireless connection (and I also checked the connection with a
patch cable), I pinged the router from the Mac.  For that matter, it did
show up on the available list of wireless networks to join.  Also, I knew
the iBook could do wireless in other settings, just not this one.
 
> Have you checked the cables? I know it sounds silly, but I've seen 
> cables that simply stopped working for no apparent reason.  

I still don't know what was wrong, but power-cycling the linksys unit did 
solve everything instantaneously.  I don't like to do that for a variety
of reasons (among them, I'd like to know what was going wrong in the first 
place).
 
jking


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