[smartBridges] client to client communication

[Roger Howard]

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I have a full class C network block so I install customers with the subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and the default gateway of 12.109.222.1 Works great, except that clients can see each other's network services etc. Also, if clients talk to each other, they can do it without going through the bandwidth throttler, meaning they can tie up the access point. But the access point (appo) has a feature to disable client to client communications. Great. Except now clients can't see each other at all. I was of the understanding that if client to client communications was disabled at the AP that the traffic would be sent back to the router, and the router would send it back out of the access point and out to the client. It doesn't work this way. I was wondering why not and how I could make this work. Is there a configuration in the router that could be set to allow this? It's a managed router from ACC. Perhaps if I set the subnet mask on each client to something like 255.255.255.252 - then the outbound traffic going to IP addresses outside this netmask would be sent through the default gateway? But then I'd loose IP addresses - and I'm not sure that's the right way to go about it. What should I do? Thanks, Roger