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

[Andrew Perrin]

On 18 Dec 2002, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> 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)

Yes - DHCP is on my list of future improvements to the home network, but
not really likely to happen soon.

ap


----------------------------------------------------------------------
Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu