On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:34, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com> wrote:Hey Wash,Thanks for your email. My pal had told me that he sometimes creates a hotspot using his phone and surfs the net using his data bundle. The points you have raised are quite reasonable, I must say, but as a network admin, I would use different subnets for LAN and WLAN e.g. Class C addresses on the WLAN and Class B addresses on the LAN or vice versa. Anyway, I think that's a minor detail. He needs to use his bundles by creating an AP using his phone.
I still need to understand this. When he's using his hotspot (which is via WLAN), is he still able to use resources on the LAN?
Do I also assume that their LAN is devoid of the Internet, hence the need to use the hotspot? Or he's limited by certain policies being enforced on the LAN. Anyway, I think those are better answered by him...
My interest is on your usage of different subnets for the LAN and WLAN. Do you suppose such a situation would enable one to access, say, Internet on the WLAN and LAN services on the Ethernet automagically??
Wash, actually what you are asking is the real answer 
- you can do all that. Example,
- When you have several subnets on LAN say 192.168.0.0/24, 192.168.1.0/24 separated by subnet itself OR by a VLAN. Wlan could be on vlan 10 while ETH is on VLAN 20. Maybe vlan 20 only access LAN and not internet. Or printer is only on the other VLAN away from internet one?
- When you are on same VLAN but on diffrent subnets
- When you have some devices you may want to test say on Cable and want to remain on internet on the WLAN. Suppose a NEW device came with default ip 192.168.15.1/24 and you are on 192.168.0.0/24, do you need to keep setting new secondary ips on the CABLE or WLAN to access it?
Wilson./
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