bryandj23
join:2002-08-15
Bay City, MI
| reply to davidpaj
Re: Let APs do DHCP ?
I may be wrong here...but here's my thought...
If each AP were a different segment (for example, 10.1.0.1, 10.2.0.1, 10.3.0.1, etc), and you had a DHCP on the backend of your AP's configured with seperate scopes, I would think that the server would hand out IP's based on which AP the client connects to.
On my home network (Windows 2000) running DHCP, I have my wireless router on a different segment from the rest of my network. The DHCP server in W2k hands out 10.23.0.x addresses for the wired network, and 10.23.1.x for neighbors connecting to the wireless. |
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superdog
I Need A Drink
Premium,MVM
join:2001-07-13
Lebanon, PA
| Bob, On a small network/AP that only has a few users per AP, You would be fine running DHCP in the AP. When it gets loaded up is when the trouble starts. Most AP's need all the horsepower they can get above 30 users, and DHCP is just another thing to add strain to it. Most of the AP's that I have worked with have an arp table in them showing all of the MAC's that are local and ones that it sees but are remote. If You look in the router to see which MAC is associated with which IP, You could then look at the arp table and see what MAC is coming thru which AP. It might be a little more of a hassle?, but at least the router is still taking care of DHCP.
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