[X4U] Airport upgrade troubles

[Jon Warms]

Assuming the router is using NAT, it depends on which brand of router 
is doing the DHCP assignments. AFAIK, Airport assigns addresses in the 
10.0.1.x space, Netgear uses 192.168.0.x, Linksys uses something else, 
and each use corresponding subnet masks. Find out which assignment 
scheme your router uses, change your Airport subnet mask to that 
scheme, and pick an address within the router's range (Netgear goes up 
to 192.168.0.50, I think). If you have a suitable subnet mask, it 
becomes temporarily irrelevant whether you use dhcp in your Mac or not. 
After the router recognizes the Mac, you can turn dhcp on and ask for a 
new assignment, if it concerns you.

BTW, I think "self-assigned" in this case meant that the address was 
assigned by the local router, rather than by the ISP.

Jon
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On Nov 19, 2004, at 15:40:52 +0000, Stroller <MacMonster at myrealbox.com> 
wrote:
> Self-assigned IPs are of the order 169.x.y.z; I think saying that "just
> assigns itself that for lack of anything better to do" is a bit unfair
> - that range is part of the "zeroconf" standards which are intended
> that networky stuff should be able to be plugged in & detect other
> network devices without any configuration. The technical stuff is at
> <http://www.zeroconf.org/> and
> <http://developer.apple.com/macosx/rendezvous/index.html>.
>
> 192.168.x.y is part of a private address space. I'd think the OP's
> conclusion that it may be issued by the router emminently reasonable -
> all Netgear devices use addresses in the 192.168.0.x range, for
> instance.
>
> I'm afraid I've never used an Airport base-station, which is why I
> haven't contributed better to this thread, but 192.168.x.x is NOT
> self-assigned - it's probably being issued by DHCP in this instance.
>
> Stroller.