Hello...
I just added a Airport Extreme base station to my home network, which was previously just a wired linksys BEFSR41 4 port router/switch. To make things more confusing I also just got a motorola vonage phone box.
The network has a wired G5, wired Replay TV, wired xbox, wireless Powerbook, and wireless Dell PC on it.
I need to figure out how to have the the Airport Extreme supply ip addresses to the other units on the network. I have tried disabling DHCP on the linksys, but then wired devices cannot access the internet. If I disable DHCP on the airport, then wireless devices cannot access the internet. If I leave DHCP on both devices then everything can access the internet, but I cannot communicate between wired/wireless computer. I.e. iTunes cannot stream from a wired computer to a wireless one.
As far as physical routing, right now I have the Ethernet port of my cable modem going into the WAN port of the airport extreme. Then the LAN port of the airport extreme goes into the WAN port of the Vonage device. Then the "PC" port of the Vonage device plugs into one of the linksys ports (not the WAN or LAN).
Also, I need to figure out how to "foward ports" with my Airport Extreme like I used to do with the Linksys.
If someone could help me get any/all of this straightened out... I would be very greatful!
TIA
I just added a Airport Extreme base station to my home network, which was previously just a wired linksys BEFSR41 4 port router/switch. To make things more confusing I also just got a motorola vonage phone box.
The network has a wired G5, wired Replay TV, wired xbox, wireless Powerbook, and wireless Dell PC on it.
I need to figure out how to have the the Airport Extreme supply ip addresses to the other units on the network. I have tried disabling DHCP on the linksys, but then wired devices cannot access the internet. If I disable DHCP on the airport, then wireless devices cannot access the internet. If I leave DHCP on both devices then everything can access the internet, but I cannot communicate between wired/wireless computer. I.e. iTunes cannot stream from a wired computer to a wireless one.
As far as physical routing, right now I have the Ethernet port of my cable modem going into the WAN port of the airport extreme. Then the LAN port of the airport extreme goes into the WAN port of the Vonage device. Then the "PC" port of the Vonage device plugs into one of the linksys ports (not the WAN or LAN).
Also, I need to figure out how to "foward ports" with my Airport Extreme like I used to do with the Linksys.
If someone could help me get any/all of this straightened out... I would be very greatful!
TIA