Re: DHCP Agent: Several questions

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Wed, 18 December 1996 19:39 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
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Subject: Re: DHCP Agent: Several questions
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> Server vendors, could you respond to this thread and indicate to
> what extent you can support giaddr and assigned IP addr being on 
> different subnets?

The Internet Software Consortium DHCP server supports something called
a shared network, which allows DHCP service to be provided on a
physical network on which more than one logical subnet is operating.
Unfortunately, I don't think this solves your problem, because which
addresses can be assigned to which giaddr is still determined by
network topology.

In any case, it sounds like what you really need is something more
like RADIUS than like DHCP.

			       _MelloN_