I plan to use multiple mesh nodes connected to port 5 of an hap ac lite, through a switch. It is clear that there can be only one dhcp server. In order to be able to play with different mesh node configurations it would be most convenient to run the dhcp server on port 5 of the hap and configure all the mesh nodes as dhcp clients.
I did not find a way to enable a dhcp server on the hap's port 5. Did I miss anything?
Wolfgang DF2SI
I did not find a way to enable a dhcp server on the hap's port 5. Did I miss anything?
Wolfgang DF2SI
For example, one of my nodes has a mesh IP of 10.36.197.198 and a DtD port IP of 10.37.197.198 (2nd octet is one number higher).
I had found a discussion on the topic in this forum: https://www.arednmesh.org/content/documentation-connect-multiple-local-n.... There it was stated that DHCP server needs to be disabled on all but one node.
For me both scenarios look plausible.
Either, as implied in this other discussion, there is a /29 subnet on the DtD port with a DHCP server on exactly one of the mesh nodes, or, as you imply, each of the mesh nodes has its own IP address, and, consequently, the DtD port uses the entire 10.0.0.0/8 net. In the latter case it would not matter whether a DHCP server is enabled on any of the nodes in the DtD domain as no DHCP client is active.
The DHCP server applies to the local LAN port or ports. There is no DHCP (client or server) on the DtD port. Everything on the DtD is static IP and normally not assigned by you - but rather assigned when the node is configured with an algorithym based on the MAC (same concept as the mesh IP address).