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??