Timeline for How, if possible, extend WiFi network over Internet?
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| Dec 1, 2014 at 12:38 | vote | accept | Gerino | ||
| Nov 28, 2014 at 19:30 | comment | added | alx9r | @Gerino I would guess some of the Apple bonjour-ey stuff wouldn't work (eg. AirPlay, printer sharing). Apple seems to expect devices to be in the same L2 broadcast domain. (That might not be quite accurate, but Apple doesn't publish enough of the protocols they use to prove otherwise.) Even if you manage to extend the L2 broadcast domain across two sites, the latency between the sites would be so uncharacteristically high that I would expect chatty applications wouldn't work right (eg. SMB file shares don't work well with high latency). | |
| Nov 28, 2014 at 16:58 | comment | added | Mike Pennington | You also cannot share the same subnet across both locations, or use LLMNR | |
| Nov 28, 2014 at 16:54 | comment | added | Ron Trunk | There's not a lot that won't work. Things that require layer 2 connections include redundant server or device keepalive and synchronization, or some rather old applications. You are not likely to run into these things on a simple wireless LAN. | |
| Nov 28, 2014 at 15:57 | comment | added | Gerino | GRE tunelling does look like what I was asking about! I get the concept of the limitations of the solution being layer 3 not 2, but can you - for educational purposes :) - give some examples of what wouldn't work over such tunelling? | |
| Nov 28, 2014 at 14:50 | history | edited | Ron Trunk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarified the L3 separation between APs
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| Nov 28, 2014 at 14:47 | comment | added | Ron Trunk | Perhaps, but I suspect you're reading his words more closely than he intends. After all, he's "not well versed with networking." I added to the answer in any case. | |
| Nov 28, 2014 at 14:44 | comment | added | Mike Pennington | Connected to the same access point means routed separation is insufficient for the need. The OP needs a layer2 vpn | |
| Nov 28, 2014 at 14:10 | history | answered | Ron Trunk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |