[DHCP] RE: Determining request

[Simon Hobson]

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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