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Wirless Access Help!!

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I'm already running a wired network at my office "25 workstations" with dhcp disabled as ip addresses are entered manually on all workstations, I’m planning to add a wireless access to the network by connecting a new wireless access point to the switch.

My question; how will the access point manage the ip addresses with the connected wireless laptops? I know that I’ll assign the AP a static ip but I don’t know how all new computers will get their ip and I don’t want to set this manually on them, cuz I want guests to establish connection to the internet without changing anything on their side.
 
If the point of the AP is to allow roaming computers into your network, you will have to run some sort of DHCP server. If thats what you want, thats all you have to do. Either you will have to have a DHCP server running on your wired lan or your AP must be a AP/Router thingy.

Just pretend that your network is wired. All you are doing is changing the physical layer
 
Yup if you want the lappies to roam 'tweenst the office, traveling, and home...you'll want to leave them setup to "obtain auto", which means you'll want a DHCP service running on your LAN.

Why is it disabled right now? You can still have static LAN IPs on your network for whatever reason, just make sure their IPs are outside of the DHCP handout range. For example...lets take your typical broadband router, it hands out something like 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.253 or so from DHCP. That leaves you 192.168.1.2, to 192.168.1.99....for doing whatever you want with.

If your static workstations are already setup as 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.125...then easiest thing to do is change the DHCP properties to start higher, like at .150 on up. Main thing is, you never want your static IPs to be in the handout range of the DCHP service. Static IPs should be either assigned by hand, or done in reservations of the DHCP service (preferred)
 
An AP is just a wireless hub. Since you already have static IP's on the existing machines, but setup a DHCP server with reservations for the existing static IP's. Actually if your setting up your reservations you might as well allow for some growth as well.
 
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