[mbotta]

I have a PowerMac 733 on a wireless airport network. It connects to the internet via this wireless network. I connected an ElGato EyeHome device to its ethernet port. The two communicate flawlessly when it comes to the various movies, photos and music files that the EyeHome device can deliver on my TV screen.

However, when I try to connect to the internet with my EyeHome, I get a big blank. No connection available, at all. I have tried so many things for two straight days in a row, and this is a weekend, and the weather was nice, and I was sitting inside for no other apparent reason than to integrate a rendezvous-based device in a rendezvous-enabled network. No matter.

Some parameters:
PowerMac network settings:
Airport IP: 10.0.0.201
Airport subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Airport router: 10.0.0.138
Ethernet IP: 169.254.185.159
Ethernet subnet mask: 255.255.0.0

EyeHome network settings (manual):
IP address: 169.254.207.192
Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
Primary DNS:
Secondary DNS:
Default gateway: 169.254.185.159

I have tried various settings for the primary and secondary DNS - the ones of my PowerMac (which are the ones of my ISP), the addresses of the Airport base station and the ADSL router, the address of my PowerMac...

Internet sharing of my Airport internet connection to computers using ethernet is switched on, port 8000 is open, the EyeHome server is on, file sharing is enabled...

Please help?

Thanks,

mbotta

[waffffffle]

a 169 IP address is not a real IP. That is an IP address that a device assigns itself when it cannot get an IP from DHCP. I've never used an eyehome before but if you can manually assign an IP address to it, try giving it an IP like 10.0.0.x and setting it's gateway or router to be 10.0.0.138.

Also, I'm assuming that your base station has 2 ethernet ports, a WAN and LAN port, and that your internet connection is on the WAN port and the LAN connection is what your eyehome is connected to. There might be a setting in the airport config to turn on the DHCP server for ethernet as well (which would explain why the eyehome isn't getting an IP). I don't know for sure because I only have the old kind of base stations, with only 1 ethernet port.

[mbotta]

I have graphite base station, so only one ethernet connection.

I tried the trick with the 10.0.0. ... address, together with setting the router to 10.0.0.138, but to no avail. I have no idea why this should be...

Gettin a little desperate.

Thanks for the suggestions, though!

Cheers,

mbotta