[MACEP] Apple Airport

[Jamie McParland]

Could you just buy a few more cheat access points to put around the school?


> From: Tim Chase <tchase at bend.k12.or.us>
> Reply-To: <macep at macep.net>
> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 09:11:12 -0800
> To: <macep at macep.net>
> Subject: [MACEP] Apple Airport
> 
> 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
> __________________
> Tim Chase
> Technology / Reading
> LaPine Middle School
> Bend LaPine School District
> 
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