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...
