Access Point problem
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Wed Mar 9 11:33:03 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 21:14 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
>
> I see that more explanation is necessary. I do know that in theory the
> access point and my LAN are on two different networks. My Linux box is
> both router and DHCP controller. In theory the Access Point is supposed
> to be 192.168.0.50. My LAN is configured to 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0.
> Despite this, the laptop that is on the LAN is getting it's IP address
> from the Linux box, and is getting out to the net. Somehow, this doesn't
> make sense to me, but that's how it is. I did consider the possibility
> that the Access Point got reprogrammed at some point, and is on the same
> network as my Lan, but if it is, I can't see it - I have tried several
> obvious addresses as Scot suggests in the next reply to my post, but it
> doesn't respond. Is there some scan I can run to try to spot it? I have
> also tried changing my Lan configuration to the
> 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 range, but, I still wasn't able to see the
> access point - however, I did something wrong when I made the change and
> lost DHCP services to the laptop, so I left something out when trying
> this, and maybe that's my problem. I changed the configuration of eth1
> in the Network admin tool, and changed my settings in the dhcpd.conf,
> when I tried that. Are there other settings somewhere else I missed?
>
> While reconfigured, I did try to reset the access point with the pin in
> the reset hole method, but that didn't change my results. Now, after the
> supposed reset which puts the Access Point to 192.168.0.50, I've put my
> lan back to the original settings of 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0, and DHCP
> to the laptop is working (it's got 192.168.2.254 assigned to it), and
> I'm getting out to the net - this is baffling my imperfect understanding
> of how this is supposed to work.
>
> --
Claude,
With your eth0 interface aliased or set to 192.168.0.10, try pinging the
entire subnet ala: ping -b 192.168.0.255 and see what is returned.
Also, is it possible that the AP is also getting an address from DHCP?
Check your logs.
Bob...
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