Re: Allocating addresses across routers

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

> 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?

Actually, in order to make this work at all you need a BOOTP relay
agent - just forwarding broadcasts won't work.  If you have Cisco
routers, I think that you can get a built-in bootp relay agent.
Probably other router manufacturers support this as well, but I don't
have any information about that.  If your routers do not support BOOTP
relay, you will probably have to install BOOTP relay agents on servers
on each of your subnets.

			       _MelloN_