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Re: DHCP and secondaries

John Miezitis <John.Miezitis@its.utas.edu.au> Fri, 17 May 1996 00:01 UTC

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From: John Miezitis <John.Miezitis@its.utas.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: DHCP and secondaries
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We modified the CMU Bootp 2.4.3 with dhcp extensions code to support static
address assignements for MAC addresses in multiple subnets.  This allows
some machines to roam but we have to know which subnets they will be roaming to.

To support secondary subnets we maintain a list of primary net and secondary
nets in the bootptab file.  It is all a bit messy but does what we need at
the moment.

At 05:34 16/05/96 -0400, you wrote:
>> From:     Tim Peiffer <peiffer@nts.umn.edu>
>> 
>> Does anyone know of a pointer to a DHCP package that
>> supports the use of secondary addresses (i.e, multiple
>> logical subnets on one interface)?
>
>A related question: Does anyone know of a BOOTP or DHCP server that can
>hand out a different IP configuration to the same MAC address depending
>on the value of the gateway address field?  The application is that we
>are considering providing a limited service for people with portables. 
>Depending where they physically connect they obviously need a different
>config and in some ways it would be nice to have single boot server
>rather than one for each possible location. 
>
>Sam Wilson
>Network Services Division
>Computing Services, The University of Edinburgh
>Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
>
>

Cheers.
-JohnM

   John B Miezitis, University of Tasmania, Information Technology Services.
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