[lazerbrains]

I have set up a Wireless Network in my building and I also have a LAN. THey both work fine, but I am wondering if there is any way that the wireless clients can see the LAN and share files with the 'wired' machines. Is there a way to do this? If so what do I need to do to get them to work.

The wired network is connected to a Cisco Router that is dishing out the DHCP and connecting us to the internet. I have the base station connected to the router but it is giving out DHCP to the wireless clients. I have changed the IP scheme on the wireless so that it is the smae IP sheme as our wired clients and using the same subnet mask but it is still not working. Is there a way that the wireless router will pull IP addresses ala DHCP from our Cisco router? Or is there another way to do it?

[ghporter]

If you change your base station to "bridge mode" (uncheck the "share a single IP address" box on the Network tab of the Admin Utility), that should do it. All your wireless clients are using DHCP, so the base station will bridge them to the Cisco router, which will give them addresses. That should do it.

[lazerbrains]

Originally posted by GHPorter:
If you change your base station to "bridge mode" (uncheck the "share a single IP address" box on the Network tab of the Admin Utility), that should do it. All your wireless clients are using DHCP, so the base station will bridge them to the Cisco router, which will give them addresses. That should do it.

I am running a D-Link AirPlus extreme router. not an Airport BaseStation. I looked into it pretty intensely before buying and even MacWorld rated it higher than the Airport version. Anyway, I looked in the network utilty and there is no "bridge mode" specified anywhere but there is something called Virtual Server that seems like it might be the same thing. It says "Virtual Server is used to allow Internet users access to LAN services." But it asks for all this information:

Name

Private IP

Protocol Type

Private Port

Public Port

DO you know if this would be asking for the IP of the Cisco Router? Or should I be looking for something else?

[lazerbrains]

I turned off DHCP Server and all I got was a self assigned IP. It didn't seem to pass through and find the Cisco router. Any ideas?

[ghporter]

It looks like the AirPlus Extreme Router is a model DI-624. Note that there are at least three different versions of this model, so you should pour through your manual to make sure what I say makes sense.

On the "Home" configuration page, with the "LAN" button selected, choose "Static IP Address," and assign the router an address that works with your wired subnet. You need the static IP to be able to reach the router to configure it in the future.

Now, click the "DHCP" button and disable the DHCP server. Turning off the DHCP server means that all DHCP requests from your computers will go up the chain to the Cisco router.

Finally, go to the "Advanced" tab and click on the "DMZ" button. Now enter the LAN IP address you assigned to the router. This effectively (according to the manual, anyway) disables the NAT functionality of the router, and should do what "bridge mode" on a base station does.

[lazerbrains]

I got it to work. I had the cable from the CIsco Router plugged into the WAN port on the back of the D-LINK. I switched it to just a standard port on the back and now I can see all my machines. Thanks for all the help. I will still try what you suggested to get the DHCP to come from the Cisco router. I'll let you know how it works.

[ghporter]

With the cable moved to a LAN port, all you should need to do is disable the DHCP. That should leave only the Cisco router as a DHCP server, and that should do the trick.