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A company is in the process of relocating to a new force space and ends out that the Internet circuit
will not be ready before the move. The new building has a non-Cisco WLAN to which they can
connect. The engineer has a 12-port switch and one Cisco autonomous AP and must connect
multiple wired devices. Which additional device is needed to get all clients connected over the
workgroup bridge?
Options
Discussion
My pick: A, hub won't get you L3 traffic to the WLAN so router is needed here.
A here. The router handles traffic from wired devices to the Internet via the workgroup bridge, which a hub alone can't do. Hub would just get local connectivity, but not route out. Pretty sure that's what they want-unless there's some catch I'm missing.
Its C. You just need a hub to connect all the wired devices to the autonomous AP acting as a workgroup bridge, right? Don't see why you'd need routing here if it's just about local connectivity for now. Maybe I'm missing something, but pretty sure hub should be enough in this setup.
Router (A) is needed since the workgroup bridge only connects wired clients to the WLAN, but to actually enable Internet access you have to have routing. Switch or hub alone wouldn't handle this aspect. Pretty sure that's what it's asking for.
Probably A, need the router for routing through the workgroup bridge, hub's just a distractor here.
Option C, since hub is usually what folks pick for just connecting wired devices, though maybe that's the trick here.
A tbh, but only if they truly need Internet before the circuit is live. Otherwise, hub would cover pure LAN bridging.
A saw a similar scenario in official practice. Router required to provide the L3 path for wired clients through the AP.
Option A router
C isn’t enough since you want those wired devices to reach the Internet, not just talk locally. A router (A) is needed for actual layer 3 routing between the switch/clients and the WLAN via the bridge. Pretty sure about this, unless I missed a detail.
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