On 05/20/2015 09:17 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2015-05-20 14:31, Anton Aylward wrote:
have a single IP address at its outlet or is there a a subnet per room?
I guess they have a socket in the wall, and perhaps a switch for a computer or two. It was made on 2003.
If the latter what is it? is it a /24?
I guess they get addresses directly from the main pool, 172.16...
Well that offers a staged testability.
I suppose one way of asking that is "How many users per room are supported?
I guess few now, that's why they want to go over wifi, to allow "all". They can not cable them all, currently.
If I were doing this then I would not do "few". I'd make sure each room had one and only one IP address on the backbone. That is the the access address for the wifi router. KISS. a backbone subnet per room makes things more involved than they need to be.
Then each room gets a 192.168.1.* router. But that means NAT, which is a problem, I think, to get samba working across to the central server.
It shouldn't be. I think of my own situation. I have my ISP supplying me with one and only one IP address that connects to my netgear "firewall" which is actually a NAT device with 192.168.2.x subnet. Of that hangs my wifi router. My tablet gets a 192.168.1.x address. To address my printer at 192.168.2.32 I do need to add a 'route' to make it explicit. But the NAT does not get in the way of my accessing the SAMBA server on my desktop or the server under my desk that runs ownCloud as well as SAMBA.
The alternative is plain routing, with a different 192.168.* subnet per "room".
It is important to have a different subnet per room. or at least dished out per wifi router. if you don't I'm sure at the least it will lead to debugging & support problems!
Or use an access point per room, and be directly in the main pool... in which case, they should consider switching to 10.*.*.*
How well does that support traffic, I'm unsure.
I think we are well past the point of this being a Suse problem. its not that this group lacks networking & wifi experience, its that this is a problem more directly suited for a group that focuses on networking and wifi problems and has core experience in that area. We, for the most part, are Linux generalists. There are undoubtedly specialists who have addresses this exact situation before. The OP would be better off finding that other forum. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org