Originally Posted By: wfaulk

Clients behind an 802.11 bridge are all seen with the same MAC address on the far side, the MAC of the bridge itself. You can get one DHCP address, but since DHCP uses the MAC address as the identifier, you can't have more than one device get a DHCP address, including the bridge itself.

RFC2131 says a DHCP server "MUST" deal with clients that send a "client identifier", and key off that rather than the MAC address; I don't know whether any common DHCP clients do send their MAC address as a client identifier, but if they do, several of them could DHCP through the same bridge.

Peter