Saturday, December 22, 2007

Daisy Chain Airport WDS

Old but good article on Daisy Chaining Airport base stations together to extend your wireless network. The article describes the process to setup a fairly elaborate Wireless network:

           relay1 - relay2 - relay3
           /                         \         
router = main                        remote1
           \      
           remote2

Labels: Airport WDS, Apple Airport Extreme., Daisy Chain Airport Base Station, Extending Wireless Networks

Article Link posted by Edward at 11:26 AM
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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Tech: Leopard Airport issues

A lot of people are having issues using Airport after upgrading / installing Leopard. I ran into the same issue as well. My problem was resolved by manually setting the Airport MTU to 1492.

For some reason my ISP's implementation of PPPoE requires me to manually set the MTU on all the systems in my network. I had a script that did this automatically every time I switched to my "Home" location. This of course broke after the upgrade. I decided to try my luck and see if the proper MTU's would be automatically detected and set, so I didn't bother to set it manually.

It turns out that without the right MTU set, I could not join the Airport network at all. "Connection failed" would be reported in the Airport preferences, and the following appeared in the system log:

Nov 1 22:02:45 Macintosh airportd[225]: Error: Apple80211Associate() failed -3Nov 1 22:02:45 Macintosh Apple80211Agent[195]: Error: airportd MIG failed = -3 ((null)) (port
= 27139)Nov 1 22:02:45 Macintosh Apple80211Agent[195]: Error joining XXXXX: Connection failed (-3 resul
t unavailable)

Setting the MTU manually fixed this issue immediately.

sudo ifconfig en1 mtu 1492

Labels: Apple Airport Extreme., Apple Mac OSX Leopard, MTU, PPPoE

Article Link posted by Edward at 9:29 PM
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

New Airport Extreme Lost in the news...

Yesterday Apple launched a series of new products. The new Airport Extreme was lost among all the Live Blogging and excitement.

The new Airport Extreme base station now offers Gigabit Ethernet, which fixes one of the biggest complaints about it since it's introduction. AEB is an excellent SOHO server. With an extra powered USB hub it can serve as your File and Printer sharing server as well as your internet router. The first revision only offered 100 MBit ethernet, which for many people became a bottleneck for file sharing since all the latest Macs and most PCs now offer Gigabit ethernet.

Apple seems to be making great strides to capture the 'mass market' now, rather than targeting the elite.

Labels: Apple Airport Extreme., File and Printer Sharing, SOHO Router

Article Link posted by Jambo Consulting at 1:50 PM
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