> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Michael Richardson > Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 9:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: C Chauvenet; Randy Turner; MANET IETF; Mark Townsley; JP Vasseur; > Ulrich Herberg; Acee Lindem; Qiong; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [homenet] [manet] Question for you > > > >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Raszuk <[email protected]> writes: > Robert> Why a wireless access point at the pool has to also be a > Robert> router ? Isn't it sufficient to extend one or more layer 2 > Robert> to it ? > > It's not much of an access point if it doesn't have a second interface, > is it? If it's out at the pool, and it has no wired layer2, then it > might well have a second radio (or a second ESSID), to relay. But, it > might also be connected to the wired network in the pool house.
I don't think that's the answer. It would be perfectly plausible to connect more the 802.11 access point on the same IP subnet as the wired network, or even more than one access point, all tied together at layer 2. For whatever reason, the 802.11 access points you can actually buy on the market seem to incorporate a router. Seems really silly, when most homes connect one of these to a cable or DSL modem, both of which are also routers, but there you have it. You end up with a stack of private IP address subnets. Bert _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
