more fun with airport

[Paul Gowder]

Ok, now I'm trying to rescue two airport expresses...

I think what's going on is that the airports are configured by default
to hand out IP addresses. But for some reason, the setup utility
doesn't seem to provide an option to turn that off. On leopard/snow
leopard, the only software available to configure the thing is the
"airport utility" (on tiger, apparently, there was some previous version
called the "airport admin utility,") and as far as I can tell, there is
simply no setting in the software to change.

Googling produces a bunch of help files for previous versions of the
airport utility/airport admin utility that claim that there's some
option entitled "bridge mode" that turns off dhcp/nat functions. Which
would be awesome, except that I haven't been able to find that in any
version that I have access to.

Does anyone know what the deal with this/know some way to get the
airports into bridge mode without going through the airport utility
software, like perhaps some kind of command-line thing? (Cory? You're
the resident Mac whiz around here...)

Surely someone has gotten an airport set up recently and working.... ?

thanks,

-Paul

[Mirrielees RCC (Cory Quinn)]

Hola!

There is indeed a way to configure the airport express for bridge mode using airport utility in Leopard/Snow Leopard. I've definitely done it for my airport express recently. Open Airport Utility (I'm running version 5.4.2), select the appropriate Airport Express, choose manual setup, select the Internet option at the top, and under Internet Connection there should be a Connection Sharing option. The drop down box should allow you to select "Off (Bridge Mode)."

If those options aren't available it may be because the user is running an outdated version of Airport Utility. Let me know if this was helpful (or if my response came too late).

Best,

Cory

Post by Paul Gowder
Ok, now I'm trying to rescue two airport expresses...
I think what's going on is that the airports are configured by default to hand out IP addresses. But for some reason, the setup utility doesn't seem to provide an option to turn that off. On leopard/snow leopard, the only software available to configure the thing is the "airport utility" (on tiger, apparently, there was some previous version called the "airport admin utility,") and as far as I can tell, there is simply no setting in the software to change.
Googling produces a bunch of help files for previous versions of the airport utility/airport admin utility that claim that there's some option entitled "bridge mode" that turns off dhcp/nat functions. Which would be awesome, except that I haven't been able to find that in any version that I have access to.
Does anyone know what the deal with this/know some way to get the airports into bridge mode without going through the airport utility software, like perhaps some kind of command-line thing? (Cory? You're the resident Mac whiz around here...)
Surely someone has gotten an airport set up recently and working.... ?
thanks,
-Paul