[MACEP] Apple Airport

[Eric Neiwert]

Tim
You can save the configuration as a file so even if it gets messed up by doing this you can simply restore it from a file. You can also save the MAC addresses that are in the configuration as an exported text file and import just these.


macep at macep.net on Monday, March 6, 2006 at 9:11 AM -0800 wrote:
>Question:
>
>Our school has an Airport Extreme wifi hub that travels around with a 
>mobile lab.  I'm sure we're hardly unique in that, which is why I'd 
>like input from you MACEPers about my current question.
>
>When we wheel the lab in and plug the Airport device into our patch 
>cable, that means that we disconnect our teacher computer from the 
>network (we have only one drop per room).  That was how things were 
>done until I discovered that it *works* to daisy chain another patch 
>cable out from the WAN port to my desk.  That way the Airport connects 
>to the server via its LAN port, and then it connects to my desk via the 
>WAN port.  It works, and kids can be connected wirelessly while I am on 
>the network, too.
>
>Now, here's the rub.  Another professional in the building, who knows 
>more about networking and WANs and LANs than I do, says that we must 
>not do this for fear of corrupting the configuration of the Airport.  I 
>think this in reference to the fact that the airport has a static IP 
>address that he can access from home, and it contains the MAC addresses 
>of all our laptops.  So to lose those configurations would be a loss 
>indeed.
>
>Is it true?  Is there danger of configuration loss if you use the 
>Airport in this way?
>
>~Tim
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>LaPine Middle School
>Bend LaPine School District
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Eric Neiwert
Technology Coordinator
Gordon Russell Middle School
http://russell.gresham.k12.or.us
Gresham-Barlow School District
Gresham, OR



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