Hello everyone. I am having trouble setting up my PowerBook as the default host on my network through my airport extreme base station. I want my computer to recieve all incoming traffic to effectively "turn off" the firewall within my airport extreme base station. I want to do this because i find that many things go smoother when i am just plugged into regular ethernet and connect via PPPoE (ie iChat file transfers). There are other things that I've noticed are affected by the router, so I followed the steps in the AirPort Help thing.
First i checked the box in WAN Privacy for "Default Host" then i set the IP address as 10.1.1.253 I saved the changes, and it restarted the base station. Next i went to my network prefs for Airport and changed DHCP to Manually and typed in 10.1.1.253. Next, I typed in the address for my Airport base station (10.0.1.1) next to the Router box. Now this is where i hit a little snitch. It seems i NEED to supply a DNS server at this point (as this box is listed as Optional when using DHCP but when i switch to Manually the Optional flag goes away), but i don't know what a DNS Server is, or what mine is, or what I need to enter in that box. If i try to just go without it, the internet does not work.
Also, i have a netgear hub that distributes the wired ethernet connection to two other PC's, and when i have done all this to the AirPort base station and left the DNS server field blank, only MY powerbook cannot access the internet, while the two PC's can.
I was wondering if anyone has gotten this to work, and could help me out. As you can tell, i am very new to networking, and have only had my powerbook for a few months.
Thanks for reading my post,
mike
First i checked the box in WAN Privacy for "Default Host" then i set the IP address as 10.1.1.253 I saved the changes, and it restarted the base station. Next i went to my network prefs for Airport and changed DHCP to Manually and typed in 10.1.1.253. Next, I typed in the address for my Airport base station (10.0.1.1) next to the Router box. Now this is where i hit a little snitch. It seems i NEED to supply a DNS server at this point (as this box is listed as Optional when using DHCP but when i switch to Manually the Optional flag goes away), but i don't know what a DNS Server is, or what mine is, or what I need to enter in that box. If i try to just go without it, the internet does not work.
Also, i have a netgear hub that distributes the wired ethernet connection to two other PC's, and when i have done all this to the AirPort base station and left the DNS server field blank, only MY powerbook cannot access the internet, while the two PC's can.
I was wondering if anyone has gotten this to work, and could help me out. As you can tell, i am very new to networking, and have only had my powerbook for a few months.
Thanks for reading my post,
mike