I'm definitely doing that (over thinking it). Bane of my life that is. Can't help but want details to narrow things down.The first method you suggested is a routed hotspot, the second is a bridged hotspot. sdm easily enables both. Your choice.
The conventional way to add a dhcp/dns to your intranet without affecting the existing one is either to make rpiAP serve a different subnet then use nat on the rpiAP to funnel wireless traffic down the rpiAP ethernet or have rpiAP forward its requests to the existing dhcp/dns for same subnet down the rpiAP ethernet. Typically the rpiAP ethernet is a fixed address on the intranet subnet.
Seems to me that the best approach is for the rpiAP to use a subnet that won't be used anywhere else so it can be used equivalently on the home LAN and out in the field. Why over-think it?
Statistics: Posted by swampdog — Tue Aug 26, 2025 6:27 pm