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#1 2003-01-07 11:04 pm
- MacLuxo84
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The tale of two Macs, a cable modem, a hub and an airport
Hi all,
It seems my roommate and I have stumbled across an interesting puzzle.
Last night we set up our iMac (w/o an airport card) and iBook (w/ an airport card) to share a cable modem connection. We hooked the iMac, the cable modem and a graphite airport into a basic ethernet hub and somehow got the getup to work so iMac and iBook could surf the net at the same time.
But, when the iMac woke up from sleep, its IP address reset and would not recall an IP which worked with the cable modem. The iMac would generate an IP which suggested it was turning to the airport for a connection.
I was able to restore a working IP by unplugging the airport and refreshing the ethernet connection on the iMac. But now we can't get the iBook to generate an IP which works with the cable modem.
Has anyone out there attempted an oddball connection as such? Any advice or suggestions is greatly appreciated.
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#2 2003-01-08 11:40 am
- smd3
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Re: The tale of two Macs, a cable modem, a hub and an airport
You plugged both the iMac, Cable modem, and the Airport into the hub? I thought the Airport was a router and you'd plug the cable modem into that.
Cable modem to WAN port, iMac to LAN port, and iBook uses wireless.
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#3 2003-01-08 12:08 pm
- Say_What
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Re: The tale of two Macs, a cable modem, a hub and an airport
Sounds to me like you have two DHCP servers and it's confusing the iMac. I don't have (nor have I used) an Airport connection as of yet, so I'm guessing here, but you may want to set up a default gateway and/or static route in the iMac to the DSL router.
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