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More info?)
"Greg" <ghays@vc.com> wrote in message
news:dLWdnVIliN4RKN3cRVn-sw@arkansas.net...
> "IT" is interface with our network. The access point lets us connect to
> the
> internet and the network via wireless (laptop or pda).
>
> I did follow those instructions. They were posted on another website.
> Disabled the DHCP as instructed. Changed the linksys lan ip address. As I
> said above, I am able to connect to our server via the wireless 802.11b on
> my laptop. But if I don't manually configure my TCP/IP settings (ip
> address,
> default gateway, preferred dns sever) then I cannot connect to the server
> or
> the internet. Maybe Windows 2003 server doesn't like the linksys. Our DNS
> ip
> address is the server IP address.
>
> <dold@XReXXChang.usenet.us.com> wrote in message
> news:chpv8g$jn4$5@blue.rahul.net...
>> Greg <ghays@vc.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks. But that really didn't answer my question. I can connect to the
>> > linksys just fine. I've disabled the DHCP and so on.. Just wanted to
> know if
>> > I could set up the linksys with an ip address so I wouldn't have to set
> up
>> > one manually on each wireless computer.
>>
>> The reason I didn't answer is because I don't know what's missing from
> your
>> setup yet. You said it works fine, but it doesn't work. What is "it"?
>>
>> Sure, you can give your Linksys an IP address. It probably is getting
>> one
>> from the DHCP server on the LAN currently. That's for "remote" admin
>> access to the Linksys from the outside, or for accessing servers on the
>> wireless side. That doesn't help the wireless clients though. If you
>> follow the directions on the link that I gave, the wireless clients
>> should
>> also pick up IP addresses from the building DHCP, and not the Linksys.
The same DHCP server that is assigning IP addresses and subnet masks should
be assigning DNS servers and Default Gateway addresses. Am I correct that
the DHCP server for the WLAN is different than the DHCP server for wired
clients? Have your sysadmin configure the DHCP server to assign DNS Server
addresses and Default Gateway addresses.
Ron Bandes, CCNP, CTT+, etc.