Subject: RE: DHCP and multiple subnets
From: Christopher E. Brown (cbrown@woods.net)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 12:41:16 AKST
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> about using DHCP relays. The relay client will forward the request to the
> DHCP server, and the address is assigned from the pool the original request
> came in on (on the relay's interface). So, if you're not physically on the
> same subnet, you'll need to have your router (if it supports relay) or
> another host act as the relay and forward to your primary DHCP server.
>
Beware MS products and dhcrelay... 95/98/NT4/2000/XP/ME all have
issues when dealing with an RFC compliant dhcprelay. This is why for
example when you enable dhcprelay on a Cisco router it does not do
relay... They actually do a dhcp request proxy, to prevent
breakage/etc.
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