Airport Extreme No IP Address

Airport Extreme No IP Address & Self Assigned IP Address Issue, RESOLVED:
Re: Airport Extreme IP Address Issue
After hours of trying everything else, this worked!!!
From: Comcast Networking/Router/Wifi Gateway:
Re: Airport Extreme IP Address Issue
11-20-2012 07:11 PM
MyComputerGuyJo:
I just wanted to add what Apple Support walked me through. Worked perfectly. Similar to some of the posts here. This assumes you have finished the setup of the Airport using DHCP to obtain the IP automatically from Comcast and it says the IP is invalid.
Power off\on Sequence
1, Power off Comcast Modem. Remove Battery back up, if it has one. Disconnect the coax cable.
2. Power off Airport Extreme
3. Let both sit for 3 minutes.
4. Reconnect coax cable to Comcast modem and replace battery and power up.
5. Wait a minute or two to make sure the Comcast modem is completely up and then Power on the Airport Extreme.
(When AP asks for DNS, Type in both addresses below)
Re: Airport Extreme IP Address Issue
11-01-2012 03:07 PM
Freyfisher: I had the same problem whenn I switched to the Airport Extreme yesterday. Here is what I did:
1: uplugged modem for 30 sec. and detached all ethernet cables. Plugged back in and reattached airport extreme cable after all lights were solid on the modem. Then, I went into Airport Utility and selected, "Base Station"> "restore default settings". Then" Base Station"> Restart. Then go through setup assistant again. If no luck, try setting IPv4 to 10.0.1.2, subnet to 255.255.255.0, router to 10.0.1.1. IPv6 set to OFF if having trouble. DNS adresses: 75.75.75.75, 75.75.76.76, search domain hsd1.ST.comcast.net where "ST" is your two-letter State abbrev. Hope this helps someone....

I have also looked through other threads about this same problem, but none of the solutions (e.g. posts by Tesserax, followed to the letter) so far have worked.
Here are other things I have tried:
1. Called Cox to have them reset my modem, internet works through Ethernet directly from the modem
2. Downgraded AEBS firmware to 7.6.1 (oddly enough, now I cannot for the life of me update the firmware back to 7.6.4, always says cannot connect to update server)
I ran through the various solutions from this thread: "No DNS servers" and "Internet connection" problems with Comcast?
Still getting that pesky blinking amber light.

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Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click on the AirPort Extreme icon
If the AirPort Extreme is performing as the main router on the network, Info will be displayed about the Internet, or public IP address, and also the private LAN or local IP address of the AirPort Exreme.
If another device is performing as the main router on your network, only the local IP address of the AirPort Extreme will be displayed.

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Hardware: Motorola SURFboard SB6141, Airport Extreme A1408
I recently set up a new internet service with Cox, plugged in the SB6141 and A1408 and everything set up perfectly, solid green light and wireless was flawless. However, electricity to my house had to be reset, and when the power came back on the green light on the Airport Extreme started to flashing amber. I did several hard/factory resets of the Airport Extreme as well as unplugging the modem and leaving everything unplugged for several minutes and then plugging everything back in. No matter what combination of things I try to do, the Airport Utility always tells me the same 2 errors: invalid IP address and no DNS server. Why was the Airport Extreme able to automatically set up the first time, but not now? Any ideas of what I can do? Thanks!

I have also looked through other threads about this same problem, but none of the solutions (e.g. posts by Tesserax, followed to the letter) so far have worked.
Here are other things I have tried:
1. Called Cox to have them reset my modem, internet works through Ethernet directly from the modem
2. Downgraded AEBS firmware to 7.6.1 (oddly enough, now I cannot for the life of me update the firmware back to 7.6.4, always says cannot connect to update server)
I ran through the various solutions from this thread: "No DNS servers" and "Internet connection" problems with Comcast?
Still getting that pesky blinking amber light.

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Thanks for that quick response. Trust me, after the poor Apple Tech person had to work with me for an hour to get this working correctly, I am NOT touching it!
We couldn't get the Airport Extreme to recognize a valid router address - had to unplug the Comcast Ubee modem, take out the battery & we finally also disconnected the coax cable on the 3rd try. 3rd try was a charm & this has been fantastic for 3 days now. Then I found out there had been an issue with Comast Internet in my area, which may have caused us the setup heartache.
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Sorry, but there is no alternative to forwarding the ports; that's the way TCP/IP works with NAT (which the AE is using to give your laptop it's IP address). Forwarding is no less secure, though, than if the system has a native IP address.
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cdated, Welcome to the discussion area!
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Have you tracked down the device/port using this 2nd MAC address?

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Hello The Swagman. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
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You are stuck with .1 on whatever private network you choose.

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Hi
Is it possible to set the LAN IP address of an AE (Simultaneous Dual-Band II)?
As the AE is my gateway I would prefer to have it's LAN IP address set to 192.168.x.254 rather than 192.168.x.1 which seems to be the default.
Cheers
Smudger

Hi William
I don't see any way to do that in Airport Utility either.
The reason I want to do it is that I'm a network admin from way back (as the saying goes "when Pontius was a pilot") and .254 has always been the default for gateways. When I changed to the AE I had to edit a bunch of config files to cater for the gateway selecting .1 instead!
If it can't be done, it can't be done. But I think it's a shortcoming of the unit.
Thanks anyway.
Smudger

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I recently had a security system installed in my house. One of the features is an EPAD which enables me to have a virtual keypad on my iphone, and computer to operate the alarm system. The technician was not familiar with Mac's and Airports. How do I open port 80 to 80 in my airport and assign a fixed IP address for the EPAD? Apparently this is what is needed to make this work.

There are three ranges of "strictly local" IP addresses reserved for local Network use:
192.168.xxx.yyy
172.16.xxx.yyy
10.xxx.yyy.zzz
What your Router does for you is to act as your agent on the Internet.Your requests are packaged up and forwarded on your behalf, and only when a response is expected is the response returned to your local IP address.
Directing Network Traffic to a Specific Computer on Your
Network (Port Mapping)
AirPort Extreme uses Network Address Translation (NAT) to share a single IP address with the computers that join the AirPort Extreme network. To provide Internet access to several computers with one IP address, NAT assigns private IP addresses to each computer on the AirPort Extreme network, and then matches these addresses with port numbers. The wireless device creates a port-to-private IP address table entry when a computer on your AirPort (private) network sends a request for information to the Internet.
If you’re using a web, AppleShare, or FTP server on your AirPort Extreme network, other computers initiate communication with your server. Because the Apple wireless device has no table entries for these requests, it has no way of directing the information to the appropriate computer on your AirPort network.
To ensure that requests are properly routed to your web, AppleShare, or FTP server, you need to establish a permanent IP address for your server and provide inbound port mapping information to your Apple wireless device.
To set up inbound port mapping:
1) Open AirPort Utility, select your wireless device, and then choose Base Station > Manual Setup, or double-click the device icon to open its configuration in a separate window. Enter the password if necessary.
2) Click the Advanced button, and then click Port Mapping.
3) Click the Add button and choose a service, such as Personal File Sharing, from the Service pop-up menu.

How can I change my IP address in airport extreme?

I have an airport extreme and I would like to change the IP address. There is a renew DHCP tab next to IPv4 Address in Airport Utility, but if I click it doesn't change anything. I'm very green on IP addresses, how can I change the IP address?

I am currently connecting using DHCP. The reason I want to change my IP address is for security.
I see, thanks for the explanation.
Every time you connect to a website, any website, your IP address is sent along with the content you request. There is no avoiding that. It's the method by which the content is delivered to you, analogous to a return address on an envelope you send in the mail. It's not required for websites to maintain a log your IP address or the content you requested. Most of the time it's discarded.
That IP address sent with your web page request is the address of your ISP's router - not your AirPort Extreme. Its address can be used to identify only a broad geographical area, and only your ISP will know the location of the specific equipment it's using. To truly obscure your location from even that broad category requires connecting through a web proxy server, of which there are many to choose from. The only IP address that could be "tracked" using one of them could be anywhere around the world, and would change so often as to be useless to anyone wanting to locate you.
In any event specifying a fixed IP address for your Extreme will not accomplish anything in the way of security or privacy, and would be no different than using DHCP.
If you are concerned about privacy in general that is a very wide-ranging subject. I'll start by suggesting you avoid Google and all its products and services, for obvious reasons.

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When setting up my airport extreme, the ip address it always attempts to ue begins with 169. i know this is not a valid ip address; I shoud have 1 that begins with 174. How do I resolve this?

Thanks for the info. I am not familiar with this model, so will need to read up a bit.
Just to confirm......does this appear to be your "modem"?
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If yes, you might be interested to learn that it is a modem/router....also known as a gateway device.....quite different from a simple modem.....so the requirement to connect will be different from a simple modem.

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Now I've gone and ruined everything by purchasing a new wireless router, a Cisco WRT610N for its various capacities and speed. I intended to extend its network, but can't use WDS because the WRT and Airport Extreme cannot do that together (and the WRT doesn't do WDS out of the box anyway). Apparently I can't extend the Cisco network with the Airport Extreme.
I searched on this and other forums and realized I could set up the Extreme to be a standalone print server (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12511872&#12511872). However, I can't configure the Extreme to "join a wireless network." My choices are only "create a network" or "participate in WDS." Creating a new network just for printing results in the error message from the print process: "The process "rastertoprinter" stopped unexpectedly with status 2."
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Thank you for your wise responses,
Sarah

Although as I indicated in my original post I was not able before to print from a separate wireless network, now I am. I set up the network while the Airport Extreme was connected by Ethernet to both the MacBook and the Cisco router. I had restarted the computer, also. This time when looking to add the HP printer using Printer Setup Utility, it showed up as a Bonjour printer when I selected "Default Browser" as the connecting method.
I did not try to print with the Airport connected to the Cisco only, without setting up a separate network, partly because the option of "connect to a wireless network" never comes up.
I can now print wirelessly again--thank you. Yes, I do have to switch to a different wireless network to do so, and it's sometimes hard to remember to swith back so I can connect to the internet....

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