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For ethernet... what about airport?
Authored by: gabester on Dec 28, '04 12:36:05AM

I've noticed on both these hints that multihoming works fine for wired networking. You can duplicate either an ethernet or a firewire interface with no troubles.

However, I'd like to be able to do this with airport (and aren't 802.11b/g just wireless ethernet?) Why? Because I've got an old wireless router at home that works and is near my broadband connection. I'd also like to use an Airport Express to send my iTunes to the stereo which isn't near the broadband connection. My old router doesn't do WDS, unfortunately. So without being able to multihome on 802.11b (hey, my old iBook only has standard airport) I'm stuck either surfing OR streaming music to the stereo; I can't do both at the same time (old wireless router plugged into broadband connection; new AExp plugged into stereo on other side of the house.)

Is this even possible, or is this limitation built into 802.11b/g, and should I just suck it up and buy a newer router that does WDS?
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For ethernet... what about airport?
Authored by: milkki on Dec 28, '04 01:11:41PM

You can do this in terminal with ifconfig: sudo ifconfig en1 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0 alias

Where sudo = execute as root, en1 = the interface you want to add an alias to, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx = ip you wan to add, 255.255.255.0 = desired netmask.

I'm using this all the time with airport (public ip via DHCP) and private ip LAN.

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For ethernet... what about airport?
Authored by: hunty on Dec 28, '04 05:43:14PM

dude just get the AX to connect to the 802.11b network that is currently running. Thats what i do. I've got a draytek router 54G which is my adsl router/wireless network. the ax is in the other end of the house but it just connects to the draytek wireless network and then i can be browsing the web on my powerbook and send music to the ax because its all on the same network.



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