Subject: RE: DHCP and multiple subnets
From: Jim Gribbin (jewelrysupplier@gci.net)
Date: Fri Mar 15 2002 - 14:38:21 AKST
If this is going to expand into including windoze with multiple subnets.
There was just an article on TechRepublic on doing that with the
entailing DNS issues and whathaveyou on win2000. Kind of interesting.
Jim Gribbin
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 12:41, Christopher E. Brown wrote:
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> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Arthur Corliss wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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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