What is the point of having a DHCP agent?

2000-07-14 Thread Derek CHUNG
Having a DHCP agent will allow distribution of DHCP address across different subnet. But then isn't the address supposed to be subnet dependent? If you have a DHCP server sitting in Subnet A releasing IPs for Subnet B and an agent sitting in Subnet B helping the distribution. Hosts in B will get c

Re: What is the point of having a DHCP agent?

2000-07-14 Thread Blanco Lam
The addresses are subnet dependent. That's why you create a different scope of the DHCP server to handle clients from subnet A and subnet B. When a host in subnet B asks for an IP address, the DHCP Relay Agent will send the request to the DHCP server in subnet A telling it that it requires an IP