said by Airplane777
:At my hotel hotspots, I let my router hand out the IP addresses to all WiFi users. But...
I'm thinking of turning off DHCP in my router and turning on DHCP in each of the APs.
When I remote into my Internet gateway routers, I will see the IP addresses of the users. But with the router handing out IP addresses, I won't have any idea at all which AP a users is on (or at least the AP he originated on, assuming he didn't walk around the hotel and hand off to another AP).
I have one hotel with 11 APs and I would like to know which AP a particular IP (user) is on. So I figure if I let the APs do DHCP, and knowing the IP range assigned to each AP, I will naturally know the AP each user originated on.
Am I correct in my thinking there?
Thanks.
Might be correct, some may disagree, but my general feeling is the less the AP has to do as far as network backend the better.