{"id":4471,"date":"2013-01-02T20:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T18:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2013-01-02T20:32:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T18:32:44","slug":"how-to-disable-the-dhcp-server-on-an-apple-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/how-to-disable-the-dhcp-server-on-an-apple-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"How to disable the DHCP server on an Apple Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; display: inline; float: right\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hero_airport_wifi.png\" width=\"105\" height=\"88\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Apple Airport (extreme) is \u201cin my humble opinion\u201d a very good access point for home and small office use. As with other Apple products it\u2019s really a dummy-proof products that\u2019s easy to setup and use. But for the more adventurous user the it might feel as if you\u2019re force to do what Apple tells you to do (sounds familiar?). <\/p>\n<p>For instance disabling the DHCP server is not an option if you\u2019re sharing a public IP (better known as network address translation \u2013 NAT). If you want to run your own DHCP server (where you can configure stuff like DHCP options) you have two options.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Option 1 \u2013 Bridge mode<\/h2>\n<p>If you use bridge mode, instead of DHCP or DHCP+NAT, all traffic is bridged to the internal interface. Not really a solution or a workaround for your problem, but it disables the DHCP server. <em>Please continue reading for a better workaround.     <br clear=\"all\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <br clear=\"all\" \/>  <\/p>\n<h2>Option 2 \u2013 Fool the damned thing<\/h2>\n<p>Don\u2019t disable the DHCP server but instead use the built-in functionality that&#160; prevents the service from working: deplete the pool. If the pool is depleted the DHCP server is unable to fulfill a DHCP request, the DHCP server is now out of order.<\/p>\n<p>Depleting the pool is very easy, just decrease the size of the pool to 2 (the minimum) and create a reservation for both IP addresses to fake MAC addresses. I\u2019ll show you how to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the Airport configuration utility<\/li>\n<li>Select the access point that acts as DHCP server&#160; and click on \u2018Manual configuration\u2019     <br clear=\"all\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AirPort-configuratieprogramma_2013-01-02_19-05-23.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Airport configuration utility - Select airport extreme\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Airport configuration utility - Select airport extreme\" src=\"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AirPort-configuratieprogramma_2013-01-02_19-05-23_thumb.png\" width=\"119\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Click on \u2018Internet\u2019     <br clear=\"all\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AirPort-configuratieprogramma-AirportExtreme-0_2013-01-02_19-05-55.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Airport configuration utility - Click on Internet\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Airport configuration utility - Click on Internet\" src=\"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AirPort-configuratieprogramma-AirportExtreme-0_2013-01-02_19-05-55_thumb.png\" width=\"110\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Select the tab \u2018DHCP\u2019     <br clear=\"all\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AirPort-configuratieprogramma-AirportExtreme-0_2013-01-02_19-06-04.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Airport configuration utility - select DHCP\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Airport configuration utility - select DHCP\" src=\"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AirPort-configuratieprogramma-AirportExtreme-0_2013-01-02_19-06-04_thumb.png\" width=\"110\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Set the range from <strong>2<\/strong> to <strong>3       <br clear=\"all\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AirPort-configuratieprogramma-AirportExtreme-0_2013-01-02_19-06-43.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Airport configuration utility - Deplete DHCP server\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Airport configuration utility - Deplete DHCP server\" src=\"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AirPort-configuratieprogramma-AirportExtreme-0_2013-01-02_19-06-43_thumb.png\" width=\"110\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Add two reservations to dummy MAC addresses (TIP: copy your own MAC and change the last byte)<\/li>\n<li>Click on Apply<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Sorry, screenshots are in Dutch (but you probably get the \u2018picture\u2019).<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apple Airport (extreme) is \u201cin my humble opinion\u201d a very good access point for home and small office use. As with other Apple products it\u2019s really a dummy-proof products that\u2019s easy to setup and use. But for the more adventurous user the it might feel as if you\u2019re force to do what Apple tells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[523,522,355],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-category","tag-airport","tag-apple","tag-dhcp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4474,"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions\/4474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ingmarverheij.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}