[tharbert]

I believe there is fiber into the building then a router connected to switches serving the ports. In this case, the building has two occupants, each on their own VLAN. Each VLAN supports half a class C subnet. I'm not talking about a DMZ or any special network architecture on the building side. There are no DHCP scopes defined for these VLANs. This is just me buying a simple SOHO access point and configuring it with a static IP address so that it gets access to the building network. This is a temporary measure until they can extend the campus wireless network into the building. At that point, I shutter the SOHO AP.

The surprise coming from the conversation was that the AP would respond to a DHCP request coming from within the subnet on the VLAN. I'm unsure about the point he was trying to make too. He seemed to think it was a big deal. I wasn't aware that your standard little Linksys or DLink wireless access points acted in the way he described.