[GTALUG] of routers and access points

[Don Tai]

Why don't you let the router do all the router work, such as Wifi, routing,
DHCP, DNS, etc? I have my router RJ45'd to my Bell router, and let it do
all that. The Bell router's wifi is rarely used, but is a backup. Connect
all your boxes RJ45 to your router if you wish, then they can all play well
together, no? Is this too simple a setup?

On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 11:58, David Mason via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> I had a setup where my modem was connected to my gateway Linux box which
> did routing, DHCP, DNS, etc. and was also connected to a switch which was
> connected to a WiFi router being used as an access point. This is too
> brittle for my tastes, as other members of my family can’t resolve problems
> with it.
>
> Something went wrong so I have temporarily reconfigured it so the WiFi
> router is connected directly to the modem, but this doesn’t let the WiFi
> clients connect to the Linux boxes or other hard-wired machines or let them
> connect to the internet. (I could connect the other devices to the router,
> but for WiFi propagation reasons, the WiFi router is far away from all the
> other devices, so this is not ideal.)
>
> So I was thinking of getting a
> https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1046_363&item_id=102961 router
> and connecting to that the Linux box (which would still do DHCP (possibly)
> and DNS, the router configured back as an access point (or a POE access
> point such as
> https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1056_356&item_id=031082,
> as well as the other wired devices.
>
> Thoughts? Thanks.
>
> ../Dave
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