As Nathan and I discussed, giving both our buildings the same address range would create a dis-contiguous network, resulting in lost packets and a confused routing protocol. Because of this, we decided the two separate buildings would have separate networks that both grant the same privileges. The only way to overcome this without having two separate networks would be to use a tunnel, which creates unnecessary stress and overhead to our network.
To check this idea, I went to three separate areas of the MIT wireless network to capture the address information from each block. First the Library, secondly P Block, and lastly JKL Block.
As these three screenshots show, although the network is always "MIT-Wireless", the ip address is actually in different subnets. Most the addresses remain the same, which makes sense, but each separate building is treated as a different network.
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