[KarlN83]

Hi,

I currently have an esxi lab that has slowly become my home network over the last 2 or so years. From the beginning I decided to stick with DHCP from my router rather than use DHCP from a server. Now my problem is that I cannot use WDS without DHCP and quite frankly my network is a mess with IP's assigned all over the place so I want to take control of this issue. What I plan to do is migrate the DHCP role to a server and then 'tidy up' the IP leases so that my servers IP's are in the, for example, 192.168.1.1 - 10 range and clients 192.168.1.11 - 20 range. If that makes sense.

My only gripe is that I cant work out how my wireless clients will pick up IP's from the DHCP server? I have a WLAN card installed into the DHCP server with the WLAN Service enabled but I cant work out how to create an SSID etc for DHCP to dish out the addresses Wirelessly - Could someone enlighten me as to what I need to do to accomplish this? Is it obvious? My networking knowledge is not so good.

TIA

 

[djaburg]

You shouldn't have to change your wireless for DHCP. If you have a router on your network that handles DHCP, simply disable it there and enable the role on your server. Anyone that connects to the network via cable or wireless (the router only provides the connection for that, basically it becomes a wireless access point) will get an IP from the available DHCP server on the network. I wouldn't try to use the server as the wireless access point.

 

[KarlN83]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I bought a decent router over the weekend and did exactly what you suggested on a test network. All works fine.

I will now create a scope on the same subnet and range etc and attempt migration this week!

Many Thanks,

 

[djaburg]

You're welcome, glad it worked out.