Does Airport Extreme base station have a router?
I am contemplating moving from a lousy Linksys B/G router to an Airport Extreme base station. I currently have a Buffalo Linkstation NAS hanging off of my Linksys; will a similar setup work with the LAN port on the Airport Extreme? Or will I neex an additional router?
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The AirPort Express has a router inside, routing the incoming ethernet signals to the wireless network. It only has one Ethernet port, though, so cou can connect only the NAS device or the ethernet cable from your cable modem (or whatever you have) to it (unless you're using an ethernet switch before the AirPort Express).
I'm talking about the airport extreme, not the express. The extreme has both a LAN and a WAN port.
thanks,
SM
As far as I remember you can have the base station assign dynamic IPs both via for wireless as well as for ethernet-based clients by a built-in DHCP server. BUT you can also set the LAN port to have static IP addresses (in the same subnet as the DHCP server). So you should be able to figure out exactly what port has which address and then assign a specific IP to your NAS box. Remember: the WAN port needs to be on one subnet (which you get from your ISP) and both the wireless and the LAN port share the same subnet (basically, the two are bridged and not routed).
thanks for the help, everyone.