Odd scenario - looking for ideas
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Alright, so I have an odd idea, but I don’t know if it’s feasible to accomplish?
I have devices in my living room, and devices in my home-office next to my garage. Currently, I have an OpenWRT router between them, segregating the 2 networks with NAT. Although I have routing setup between the 2 zones, it’s not quite ideal. Device discovery doesn’t work very well between the 2 rooms.
I’d like to merge the 2 networks together, and have plans to do so, but I am wondering if I’m able to setup 2 different DHCP Pools - 1 for each room, while still technically having them on the same subnet? I suspect not, but I still wonder. That is, could I have a subnet mask of /16, a router address of, say 10.1.1.1, and somehow separate my living room devices in a 10.1.1.x dhcp pool, and my office devices in a 10.1.2.x DHCP pool. This would strictly be for organizational purposes. Yes, I am aware I can set a fixed DHCP lease for my devices, but that’d still be a headache to figure out which device is which. Not all of my devices provide hostnames, and not all that do provide meaningful ones.
Items at my disposal that are potentially useful for this purpose: a L2 managed switch, and a second pfSense box.
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you can setup vlans and work with different subnets
"device discovery" will probably have the same issues.personally i tend to avoid using/buying stuff that depends on automagic discovery bs ...