Hey.... ive inherited a strange network....looks like this: NET1 - > Bridge | NET2 Othernets<-->DATACENTER Routers | | NET3 |-> Bridge NET4
Okay.... ive been asked to provide DHCP centralized assignation to all hosts all over all the networks.... Its all okay until you hit the bridges. What happens is that the bridges are ethernet bridges (oxymoron?, i dont think so), this means they will come and ask for their dhcp packages looking exactly like an intranet host (to the dhcp server). This is a Bad Thing (TM) because those networks are not supposed to see each other. They are manually configured right now to achieve that same effect (why the hell did they bridge them then?, beats me, ive no use for the bridges). The dhcp clients are all win95/me/98/xp/2k mix, most shurely with 2003 coming too. What im wondering is id there is anything like the ClassIdentifier dhcp option for windows CLIENTS (i know ISC dhcp3 will work like bliss and assign different network configuration if the request carries its ClassId....i can make a dhcp.conf block based on that). Ive done it when the client is a radius server and it works, now, maybe there are other data that clients carry than can help me achieve the same effect? So, aint this a cool one? Any ideas? Lex Step One Group