[tharbert]

I just came from a meeting with my wireless network support guy. He was saying something about SOHO wireless routers that I'm not sure actually happens and wanted a second opinion...here goes.

In a Ethernet wired network with static addresses, I plug in a generic SOHO wireless access point (AP) to provide a wireless network. I assign it network settings so it has access to the WAN.

Now, most all these SOHO AP's come with DHCP scope enabled (192.168.1.0/24 or some such) so any connection that asks gets a dynamic address inside the AP's routed network, it's LAN side? It's not a big deal. The AP manages the internal addressing and routes traffic between the LAN and WAN as needed.

What this network engineer was saying is that the SOHO AP router could/would also respond to DHCP requests on the wired WAN network side, possibly assigning an address out of the 192.168.1.0 subnet to a component plugged in and set to use DHCP on the WAN side.

True?