Re: Allocating addresses across routers

[Matthew Waugh <[e-mail]>]

You got lots of good answers for 3Com and Cisco. I would point out that the
Bay/Wellfleet solution in Rev 8 was terrible, and in fact did end up
forwarding broadcasts (although only BOOTP packets as broadcasts). I have
heard that this was fixed in rev 10 and their solution there is similar to
the Cisco and 3Com solutions.

Hope this helps,                Mat

At 01:48 PM 9/4/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi - I have a little dilemma, but first let me explain where I am at.
>I have configured my AIX4.2 box with a DHCP server (it hands out leases,
>it handles bootp both dynamic and static)  All in all I am pretty pleased
>except for this one little thing.  We have a highly subnetted network
>and I would like to have as FEW DHCP servers as possible which means I
>need to forward client requests across the routers.  My router people
>cringe when I tell them this, they are worried about broadcasts.  Is
>there any other way to do address assignment across a router without
>opening it up to ALL broadcast packets?
>
>TIA,
>Carolyn
>
>
>
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