Hi. Confession - I'm no network expert but can normally get things working. Rather than cobble something to do what I want I'd like to understand standard or good practice for this sort of situation...
I have a wireless-wire link from my home office to the house ISP router and internet, all working OK.
(I swapped around interfaces so WAN is on PoE Ether5 so the pair of Ubiquity Nanostations 5ACget PoE power each (the other end has an injector), that all seems fine and I can access management of the 5ACs suing DHCP IP addresses but these were given by the house router.
That is not ideal as the tools, logs and expertise live my office end, if there is any problem with link or kit I want to be able to look from my end step by step and not require access via the ISP router before I can see anything.
I've seen complex discussions about VLANS/areas/subnets/DHCP vs fixed IP and large complex installations that do not seem relevant to me (3-8 devices in office and 10-20 in the home).
So I can set up a DHCP server on Ether5, and when I boot 5ACs they take IP from that DHCP and I can see them in my MT hAP Lite address table (done, tested and disabled/reset back again).
What I'm unclear about are the following:
1. DHCP or fixed IPs (I think DHCP looks better as self adjusting and requires less documentation or information to be noted)
2. What IP range to give and what that implies for how to access the management of 5ACs from either end, but primarily from the office end.
This is where I get very out of comfort zone, sure I could cobble something working but what is good practice and what are the implications/issues?
The hAP Lite operates at 192.168.88.1 and...
I'm tempted to think easiest might be to put the DHCP on Ether5 to offer 192.168.87.x or maybe 192.168.20.x as that seems a Ubiquiti common range.
I think that might get routed correctly from office LAN to Ether 5 and work with no messing/setup required at least from the Office end. TBH no idea what would happen or be possible from the house router LAN!
What should I be considering and doing??
Thanks in advance for pointers and contributions.