[MACEP] Apple Airport

[Mike Ely]

Or perhaps invest 20 bucks in a 5-port switch, and carry that around 
with the mobile lab.

Jamie McParland wrote:
> 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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