Fixed Ip Address For Macintosh - Proxim Skyline User Manual

Getting Started

Fixed IP Address for Macintosh

To manually assign IP Addresses to the computers on your local network:
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Enter the following information into the TCP/IP panel:
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Open the TCP/IP Control Panel. Select Ethernet (or Wireless, or AirPort or
whatever you are using to connect this computer to your local network) from
the Connect via pop-up menu.
Select Manually from the Configure pop-up menu.
• IP Address: Enter 192.168.0.x, where x is a number from 2 to 252. If
you are intentionally using a different range of IP Addresses on your
local network, enter a number within that network range. Each com-
puter on the network should have a distinct IP Address within the range
you are using.
• Subnet Mask: Enter 255.255.255.0
• Router Address: Enter 192.168.0.1
• Name Server Address: Enter the Domain Name Server information from
your ISP. This is required in order for the client computers to be able to
connect to the Internet. If you do not know your ISP Domain Server
information, see "ISP DNS information" on page 50.
• Search domains: Enter the domain information from your ISP.
Close the TCP/IP Control Panel, saving your settings.
Next, connect to the Skyline Wireless Broadband Gateway.
• If this is a computer on the Ethernet network, see page 13.
• If this is a wireless computer, see page 14.
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