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I'm a Mac rookie, and this one has me stumped.
My house is wired for ethernet. The modem is in the basement and i have a Netgear Desktop Switch F105 distributing internet to the rest of the house. I connect a Airport Extreme Base Station directly to one of the wall outlets on a different floor and I all I get from the AEBS is "invalid IP address." When I connect the laptop directed to the sam wall outlet, I have no connection problems at all.
I changed to bridge mode, but that didn't help. What the is the problem here?
 
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What is serving as the DHCP server? I have my time capsule setup in essentially the same way. I have a netgear router, with the TC plugged in through ethernet.

I have it set to Ethernet and OFF (Bridge Mode) and it works. I have the TCP/IP setup as DHCP and my netgear router serves it a DHCP number.
 

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Using a TC in same situation with a D-Link router. Have the same settings as Ivan.
 
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Airport Extreme set up same as Ivan but with 2Wire serving the DHCP.
 

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