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Default Separating Wired and Wireless Networks

On 01/08/2013 12:41, Tim Watts wrote:
On Thursday 01 August 2013 12:28 Roger Mills wrote in uk.d-i-y:

If you want your wired and wireless devices to share the same internet
connection, they all really need to be in the same subnet.


Why?


Because they need to be able to see the same gateway (usually the
router's LAN address).

I suppose there might be some scope for mucking about with subnet masks
so that not all devices see the same subnet 'width'.
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Cheers,
Roger
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