[DHCP] RE: Determining request
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Wed Jan 6 07:30:55 UTC 2010
At 23:20 -0700 5/1/10, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>James Dinkel wrote:
>>That is going to be considerably more complicated. Any reason for
>>being against a separate subnet?
> Because they all need to talk to each other, regardless of being
>wired or wireless.
That doesn't preclude them being on separate subnets - but it does
depend on what **exactly** you mean by "talk to each other".
If it means, any device can communicate with any other device by IP
address (or DNS name) then separate subnets aren't a problem - you
just configure your Fedora box to forward packets accordingly just
like packets to/from the internet get forwarded through a number of
routers.
On the other hand, if it means "devices can find each other by
broadcast" (such as via mdns, aka Bonjour) then it would cause you
issues. With a little bit of setup, Windows networking can work
transparently across separate subnets.
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