[P1] Airport Base Station trouble

[Michael Adams]

Hmm, well, umm, 360 days at the moment. I have my iBook on a static IP 
now though (10.0.1.201), since I got fed up with trying to get port 
mapping to work over DHCP. My PC still gets it's IP over DHCP thought, 
but presumably if it's on a lease that long it won't fetch it each time 
I boot up.

Do you think this could be the issue? I'll try changing the setting next 
time it crashes.

--Michael.



Tom R. no spam wrote:

>Do you have the b/s serving DHCP or similar?  If so, what's
>the lease time duration?  Some non-respose issues are due
>to differing IP address subnets.  Replugin may reset the
>lease?  Just some guesses based on some partly similar
>experiences.
>
>On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Michael Adams wrote:
> . . .
>  
>
>>I've just bought an original AirPort base station (graphite) and have it
>>sharing my Internet connection (through the modem) with my win98 PC over
>>ethernet and iBook over WiFi. Problem is, every so often the base
>>station crashes. It's happened three times today already and is starting
>>to get annoying!
>>
>>Usually when it crashes it stops responding to any requests... if I try
>>pinging it, nothing happens. If I open up the AirPort Admin Utility it
>>doesn't find the base station either. And of course all attempts to load
>>web pages fail.
>>
>>To fix it I just unplug it and then plug it back in after half a minute
>>of so. I tried reloading the firmware and if anything it's crashing more
>>frequently now! Also, I got the unit from the US, and I live in New
>>Zealand, so I had to get a different power adapter. I got one that
>>matched the specs on the US adapter... even though they are the same,
>>could this still cause a problem?
>>    
>>