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WiFi Access Point with DHCP server

fred339
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WiFi Access Point with DHCP server

I need to replace our DAP-2360 access points with one more current that will pass vulnerability scans.  

So, it needs to have a built-in DHCP server.

 

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antinode
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Re: WiFi Access Point with DHCP server

> I need to replace our DAP-2360 access points [...]

 

   That's a D-Link product?

 

> [...] with one more current that will pass vulnerability scans.

 

   Should the non-psychics in your audience know what "vulnerability
scans" means to you?  Or why your existing gizmos don't pass them?

 

> So, it needs to have a built-in DHCP server.

 

   "So"?

 

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur

 

   Generally, by its nature, a wireless access point is transparent, and
so does not act as a DHCP server.  Typically, a WAP is attached to a LAN
where there already is a DHCP server, and adding another (uncoordinated)
DHCP server could do only harm.


   Why, exactly, do you believe that your WAP should include its own
DHCP server?

 

   General advice: You might have more success if you described the
actual problem which you are trying to solve, rather than asking how to
implement some particular "solution" ("WAP needs built-in DHCP server"),
which may have little or nothing to do with the actual problem (whatever
it might be).

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fred339
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Re: WiFi Access Point with DHCP server

Yes, DAP-2360 is a DLink product.  It was provided for reference so the question would be more complete.

re: "vulnerability scans" - just Google it.  If one gets a lot of meaningful hits then one can be assured that it's a common term in the industry and might learn someting.  It does get a lot of hits and it is a common term in the industry.  The simple idea is that the replacement we're looking for needs to be up-to-date re: security.

"So" derives from the fact that the DAP-2360 has a built-in DHCP server and we've made use of it.  Without it we'd have to change our architecture and our approach to a number of things that I need not enumerate. 

 

The "nonsequitur" comment was unnecessary.

 

Yes, we know that most access points don't include a built-in DHCP server.  So, we're asking the *product* experts if they know of any that are newer than the DAP-2360 which does have it.

 

This *is* the problem to be solved.  

 

I could have written a longer explanation in the question but expect that would have resulted in a bunch of workaround ideas.  That's not what I'm looking for.  Either the device exists in someone's experience and knowledge or it does not.  If it doesn't, no need to answer.

I take it that *antinode* doesn't know of one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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antinode
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Re: WiFi Access Point with DHCP server

> [...] meaningful hits then one can be assured that it's a common term
> in the industry and might learn someting. [...]

 

   "common" and "specific" are spelled differently for a reason.

 

> [...] The simple idea is that the replacement we're looking for needs
> to be up-to-date re: security.

 

   Still too vague to be helpful.

 

> This *is* the problem to be solved.

 

   I'd say that the actual problem to be solved might be the provision
of a usable DHCP server to the WAP clients.  Whether the WAP itself
should be that server is a different question.

> I could have written a longer explanation in the question but expect
> that would have resulted in a bunch of workaround ideas. [...]


   Probably.  (Do you wonder why?)  How much time did you save this way,
do you think?

 

> [...] we're asking the *product* experts [...]

 

   Not here, you're not.  You might try a more relevant forum:

 

      https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/bd-p/business-wireless-for-business

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