An Ip helper address allows you to propagate (repeat) certain types of
broadcasts across the wan to one or more remote machines. Two example of
things that are useful with helper addresses are DHCP, Win9x NETBios
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From: Jason Kinney [mailto:[EMAIL
no...the two are nothing alike
a default gateway is just thatyour next hop out.
and ip helper can be any address on any subnet that would generally answer a
broadcast from a host on a local segment. But since routers stop broadcasts
by default, you must specify this address as a helper
ip helper address can be used to find a dhcp server on a different segment
than what you are. Your computer will broadcast a dhcp request (layer 3
which will not get through a router) for a dhcp server on a different
segment. ip helper address will allow your machine access to the dhcp server
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