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A couple people pointed out, there are different devices that function differently. If I plugged my router from into your network on its WAN port it would NAT any wireless traffic on an additional subnet, and would not function as a DHCP server for your wired network (barring some crazy device malfunction).

Then there are access points that are designed to plug into your network and merely extend the existing subnet to wireless devices.

Two very different scenarios. If I had a non-IT manager talking about stuff like this, I would say, we aren't doing that, then describe some hypothetical scenario that somehow justifies the objection and ends the discussion. At first I thought he was an idiot, but now I'm thinking he was just handling the situation in a politically correct manner. There are thousands of ideas that could technically work, but they're not happening on my network, the health of which I am responsible for.