[TriLUG] [OT] Setting up a home wireless network

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 23:16, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> The directions, though, say that the user should "be sure" to set clients
> to get their addresses from the WAP via DHCP, and that's where I went
> wrong (I followed their directions). The WAP issued bizarre 162.x.x.x
> addresses that, of course, didn't work on my home network. Just issuing
> the laptop a static IP (192.168.0.x), netmask, and gateway did the trick.

Well, I didn't even see that in the manual (RTFM? What's that? :),
and just let my internal network's DHCP server handle everything
and haven't had any problems with it.  The only thing I did with
the WAP was set a static IP for it in my local network, set the
ESSID, and set mac-filtering.  So, if you have another DHCP server,
you might try using that. (or you could just stay with your static
IP, but I personally like DHCP because I move my laptop between
systems some)

Cheers,
Tanner
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