From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   ted.pederson@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Thanks. I don't see AirPort. But I leave wifi on, and create a   
   > network on the MacBook. It self assigns an IP. I can connect the   
   > iPad to the network I created, and the iPAd has an IP address.   
   > They have the same subnet mask 255.255.0.0.   
      
   > But the two devices cannot ping each other's ip address.   
      
   They should have the same network part of the IP address, which,   
   given the mask, is the first two octets.   
      
   Otherwise, you need a router to connect them.   
      
   Easiest is with a wireless router that doesn't have to be connected   
   to the Internet to assign (DHCP) addresses and allow the two to   
   communicate with each other.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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