[Axel]

Hi everyone !
We just bought a Snow Base Station at home, and it's working really great. It connects to a DSL line via PPPoE (dynamic IP). At first, I kept the default settings on : each client computer got a random IP via DHCP (the "NAT and DHCP" checkbox was on in the base station settings). Then I wanted to tweak the port mapping a little, i.e I wanted to forward most services to my desktop G4. That's why I set it to a manual IP (10.0.1.201) so that it would never change, and the forwarding would always take place normally. I eventually decided to assign manually every client computer's IP.
That worked fine, but ever since I did that, I have not been able to return to the default settings (i.e IP via DHCP). When I do that, the computer gets an IP within the 10.0.1.2-10.0.1.200 range as expected, and it sees the other machines on the subnet, but it fails to connect to the outside. Manually assigning the IP (any IP in the same range, or even above 10.0.1.200) solves the problem.

This problem does not prevent me from doing what I want, but I'd still like to know what's going on, and why.

Any ideas ? Thx in advance

[ghporter]

Have you forwarded so many ports that your computer doesn't get the ports it needs? I'd look at that first...

[Axel]

Originally posted by GHPorter:
Have you forwarded so many ports that your computer doesn't get the ports it needs? I'd look at that first...

Actually, I disabled all port forwarding, so that shouldn't be the problem.
Besides, as I said, the issue is solved by assigning the IP adress manually, so that must be something else...

[ghporter]

Actually, if you had not disabled port forwarding and changed the computer back to DHCP, the ports could have been forwarded to a non-existent IP address-and blocked for all others.

But since you'd already handled this, have you restarted the computer since you did all these changes? It may take a fresh start to get everything sorted out.

[Axel]

Originally posted by GHPorter:
Actually, if you had not disabled port forwarding and changed the computer back to DHCP, the ports could have been forwarded to a non-existent IP address-and blocked for all others.

But since you'd already handled this, have you restarted the computer since you did all these changes? It may take a fresh start to get everything sorted out.

Actually I just tried erasing the DNS IP fields in the base station config, as they were already filled in each client computers' network pref pane. I also erased the domain name field, and it started working again. So now I have my desktop G4 manually set to 10.0.1.201, receiving port 80 requests, and all the others computers getting their address via DHCP correctly.

Thx for your help !