We have a situation where we are using an SXT for an AP for multiple locations. In our network we are using Static IP Addressing. But this particular AP is close enough to a home that it is causing problems with their home router. I am trying to figure out if I can setup a virtual AP on this device and set it for DHCP while keeping the main AP on static. This would let me turn off their home router, and just use the AP as both an AP and their router. It seems as if it is all one way or another.
If you set-up virtual AP, you get separate wireless interface and you set it up independently of the rest of interfaces. The only issue: if you want to run DHCP server for this interface only, you can’t simply bridge this interface with the rest of interfaces. Either you keep it simple and have separate subnet on this interface (and route traffic between this interface and the rest) … Or you can actually bridge the interface to the rest of interfaces, but use bridge filters to block DHCP traffic from passing the bridge (not to expose DHCP server in the whole network) … I guess this can be done. In this case the client on virtual wireless interface will be part of same network.