"Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes."

Have you looked at less "consumer-level" solutions?
Yes you will spend more money, but you may gain some features
like sub netting that you don't get with the "consumer-level"
hardware solutions.

Sam.



Loren H. Burlingame wrote:

>I am setting up a 34 floor condominium with wireless access. I have
>found that the Belkin Pre-N access points have a very excellent range
>which means I will only need 1 per floor (this has been tested, I
>could actually get away with 1 every other floor). The problem lies in
>the fact that these devices are very consumer-level and are hard-wired
>to only support a single /24 subnet per device while it's firewall is
>enabled (which I need in order to block SMB ports from other wireless
>users. No, there is no ability to do static routing and they will all
>be hooked up in series via Ethernet).
>
>With a potential of 300+ users I am not comfortable with a single /24.
>
>The only other option is to basically treat every wireless device as a
>NAT/firewall/router with it's own /24 dhcp pool. However, this would
>mean that users on the last AP in the daisy-chain will have to go
>through 35 NAT gateways before reaching the Internet.
>
>Does anybody see this as a problem?
>
>  
>



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