[P1] Wireless help request

[Jean-Paul Thuot]

Well thanks for all of that, I feel much better.  Mostly the reason I 
wanted to administer it is to lock it down from outside 'users'.

I appreciate you taking the time to answer me so thoroughly (not 
pedantically at all).

Jean-Paul


On 14/04/2004, at 0:17, <kollar at alltel.net> wrote:

>> I have recently purchased a wireless access point (not a router)
>
> There's your first clue -- it's not a router. :-)
>
>> to go with my new airport card.  I plugged the access point into my 
>> router,
>> fired up the airport and voila I was surfing wireless.
>>
>> ... The manual says the default IP address of the
>> access point is 192.168.1.100, but the router's internal address is
>> 192.168.123.xxx, and thus computers connecting to this router are 
>> given
>> IP addresses in this range.  Therefore the access point cannot have 
>> the
>> default address, but so far I have been unable to discover the IP
>> address of it.
>
> That's because it's, in network terms, a "switch" or a
> "bridge" (the only difference is that a switch attempts
> to deliver only packets going to machines on the other
> side, while a bridge simply copies everything from one
> side to the other). Since they operate at the link-
> layer, or MAC (Media Access Control, not Mac) level,
> basically Ethernet addresses, they don't even *need* an
> IP address to do what they're supposed to do. However,
> most of them have an IP address so you can manage (i.e.
> configure or monitor) them.
>
>> Is there some way I can sniff out
>> the access point's IP address?
>
> It's most likely 192.168.1.100, just like the manual
> says. Have you tried pinging that address from the
> wireless side? You *might* have to manually give a laptop
> an IP address like 192.168.1.88 to talk to it. You could
> then run a port scan on it to see what it has available --
> for example, if port 80 is open, you can talk to it with a
> web browser.
>
> I wouldn't worry about it though, if it's doing its job.
> Switches are rather boring critters, when it comes right
> down to it, unless you have a bunch of them talking to
> each other in a network.
>
> Heh... I knew that spending last week in a switching &
> routing class would come in handy. :-)
>
> Pedantically yours,
>
>     Larry
>
>
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