Re: DHCP requests from nodes w/ different subnet masks

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Tue, 10 September 1996 02:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: DHCP requests from nodes w/ different subnet masks
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> We are using Novell's DHCP server software. It has an option for adding 
> IP addresses from "OTHER" subnetted ranges than the one the server is on. 
> We have 5 different subnetted segments of 5 remote sites from the server 
> and all is working well.

The Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server (which I wrote) should
work in this case as well.  I'd actually be surprised if there's a
DHCP server out there that would not support subnets with different
subnet masks.   The real question is, why isn't it working for
M. Vossberg?

			       _MelloN_