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Originally Posted by
mrgruen
Hey there,
I am a network administrator of a student dorm. Me and my team (we do this in our spare time) have the task to upgrade and rebuild our dorm intern network. But unfortunately we don't have that much experience with server setup and ip-routing and stuff. So here is the topic I want to ask you about:
Hey
Why don't you just create another subnet for WiFi clients with (for example) /16 netmask? There is more IP that you need and you can configure NAT for them as you need at your gateway.
You can leave your current 192.168.0.0/24 subnet as it is, and add one more 172.16.0.0/16 subnet for WiFi.
Usually you didn't have to provide a public IP address to each student
So your clients end up with something like that:
User 1 (LAN): (192.168.0.100)=>153.126.30.101=>Gateway=>Internet
User 2 (WiFi): (172.16.0.2)=>153.126.30.102=>Gateway=>Internet
and so on, and you can NAT all your WiFi traffic through one or more public IP's.
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