On Thursday 01 August 2013 09:10 thescullster wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Hi all

OK so this is maybe a bit OT for the group, but here goes.

I've never been a fan of wireless, so cabled the house up with Cat 5 to
a number of rooms. There are clearly now numerous devices that will
only connect wirelessly and I am under pressure to add a WAP.

I've inherited a Netgear DG834G wireless router, our existing network
uses the wired version of this device. I have set up the wireless
router as a WAP OK, but wondered if it is possible to configure it as a
DHCP server with a different address range to the wired router.

Not sure how much security this would add, but I'm inclined to do as
much as possible to separate the wireless network from certain wired
devices. The SSID of the WAP is hidden and MAC address filtering on
that router is in place.

Anyone setup a separate wired and wireless network?

TIA

Phil

I did have mine on separate routed networks with a firewall in between. But
it was more trouble than it was worth - particularly if I plugged my laptop
in and the IP changed and locked up all my ssh sesssions.

In the end I merged them (WIFI in bridged mode).

In theory you can still stick a bridging firewall between then or make use
of whatever firewalling is in the WIFI AP - but having a flat IP space seems
to be less hassle - at least with my usage patterns.
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