Re: How to access to access point again
Barry Yu wrote:
I have setup the wireless access point and it is working fine,
however, I configured it to obtain ip address from DHCP server instead of the default
static IP address.
Now unless I reset the access point to original factory setting and use a cable to
connect to the access point in order to do the settings, is there any way the I could find
the new ip address of this access point which dynamically assgned from the DHCP server in
the wired network? So I can use the browser to enter into it and do the setting again?
That depends on the brand: Apple's airports announce themselves using
BonJour.
You can find its IP address by resetting it (or cycling its power), and
viewing /var/log/messages on your server.
You can also control the IP address it gets by creating an appropriate
stanza in your DHCP configuration. With a little more skill and
determination you can make different kinds of products get special
treatment:
class "pxeclients"
{
match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0,
9) = "PXEClient";
option vendor-class-identifier "PXEClient";
# At least one of the vendor-specific option must be set. We set
# the MCAST IP address to 0.0.0.0 to tell the bootrom to still use
# TFTP (address 0.0.0.0 is considered as "no address")
# option PXE.mtftp-ip 192.168.9.1; vendor-option-space PXE;
option PXE.mtftp-ip 0.0.0.0; vendor-option-space PXE;
filename "/PXE/pxelinux.0";
}
and then
pool {
allow members of "pxeclients";
default-lease-time 1800;
max-lease-time 3600;
range 192.168.9.150 192.168.9.169;
}
For actual values for your case, snoop on the traffic with tcpdump or
ethereal.
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Cheers
John
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