RE: DHCP and subnets

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Re: DHCP and subnets

Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 20:35:20 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: DHCP and subnets [ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ]

RE: DHCP and subnets

My 2c on this . When the DHCP broadcasts crosses the router ,it carries that routers mask and ip info across to the dhcp server ( assuming helpder is there) the DHCP server on seeing that the reqest came from that particular subnet issues an ip from a scope ...U could configure multiple scopes

Re: DHCP, and, subnets

Please correct me if I'm wrong but the way I've seen it work is; If you have the helper address defined on all the vlans in you RSM then, when the router sees a bootp dhcp request from the PC it sends a directed broadcast towards the next hop to the helper address. When it gets to the server