[X4U] Airport upgrade troubles

[Xavier Noria]

On Nov 16, 2004, at 9:39 AM, Kirk McElhearn wrote:

> On 11/16/04 9:34 AM, "Xavier Noria" <fxn at hashref.com> wrote:
>
>> There are always problems here updating the Airport Extreme base
>> station.
>>
>> Even with the PowerBook put in front of the station, but the update
>> wizard says it cannot communicate with the base station (which it
>> founds at least) and the Airport Admin Utility even does not list the
>> station. If I try to get to it using "Other" it says it cannot read 
>> the
>> configuration file.
>
> You'll need to reset the base station - it's a pain, but it usually 
> solves
> the problem. Check the Apple website for instructions.

Thank you! Unfortunately it didn't work here, the base station even 
didn't show up in the admin utility. I tried the 1 second reset, and 
the 5 seconds reset, no luck.

When I was about to give up it occured to me that maybe I could unplug 
the station from the router and try again one last time. The ADSL at 
home enters via a router, and the base station is then plugged there 
through an Ethernet cable. OK, I unplugged the station from the 
station, and unplugged/plugged it from the current.

It worked!

I am not very familiar with networks, but looks like the base station 
somehow justs passes its IP to the PowerBook, because when the base 
station wasn't plugged into the router the laptop had a 10.0.x.x 
address, and the tools found the base station at 10.0.1.1.

Afterwards, when I put the Ethernet cable in the plug again and renew 
DHCP, the laptop got a 192.168.x.x that looks like an IP from the 
router. If the interface is different it may happen that the laptop 
just didn't resolve 10.0.1.1 in the router's network. Does that make 
sense? Why is not the base station managing its own network and doing 
NAT towards the router?

-- fxn