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Originally Posted by tharbert
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?
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No, he is wrong......
If you look at the manual for the router, you will that the only WAN options are those for setting the address for the WAN port. The NAT settings allow one to configure the IP addresses (typically from the private IP address space) used on the LAN. To the rest of the world, all the devices on the LAN side have the same IP address and that address is the one assigned to the WAN port on the router. NAT handles the routing of the packets to the appropriate devices.
How did this guy get to be a network engineer?