Routing over Airport?

[Ashley Aitken]

Ok, all resolved.  All works now.

It was my error.  When connecting to the computer-to-computer network  
on the second computer I was entering the ASCII password into the  
connection dialog with the pop-up menu displaying "WEP Password."   
Seemed reasonable in my haste.  On closer inspection if I use that  
option (unlike the create computer-to-computer network dialog on the  
first machine where it is optional to use quotes) I have to put the  
ASCII string in quotes.  If I use the pop-up menu option that says  
"WEP 40/128-bit ASCII" then I cannot use the quotes.  It is also a  
little confusing in that it seems to connect successfully to the  
network even if you give the incorrect password (but, obviously, as I  
found out it doesn't work).  It could probably be clearer and more  
consistent across dialogs, but it was my fault.

Anyway, I am happily routing over a computer-to-computer Airport  
network now.

Sorry for the noise.

Cheers,
Ashley.


On 30/12/2006, at 10:34 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote:

>
> So is this a bug:
>
> Connection/routing works with a computer-to-computer network with  
> no WEP.
> Same connection/routing doesn't work with a computer-to-computer  
> network with WEP.
>
> This is not using Apple's Internet Sharing (NAT) for the wireless  
> network (which works fine).
>
> I thought that WEP would be transparent to the interface?
>
> Puzzled.  Any ideas what I am missing?
>
> Cheers,
> Ashley.
>
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