Q: Public Wireless on Roaming Network
The roaming configuration for Airport devices doesn't seem to support having a Public (guest) wireless network. We have a campus that has a wired backbone throughout it. We'd like to provide both a private (staff only) wireless network that has our file servers and printers and such as well as a public wireless network that any or our guest can use. Extending does what we want in terms of providing both networks consistently across multiple Airport devices. However, because of the distance between some buildings we "extending" doesn't work. So we have tried to setup our network using the "Roaming" model. It works fantastic for our private or primary wireless network. The "Public" network will only work on the main Airport that is serving the DHCP. I'm assuming that's the problem. In the roaming model you are "Creating" wireless networks and DHCP is available through the wired network but only DHCP for the primary wireless. The newly created "Public" wireless has no DHCP or routing information. Is there any way to fix this? It seems like a bug in the firmware. Does anyone have this kind of environment working with Airport devices?
Thanks!
Airport
Posted on Jun 26, 2013 8:35 PM