Re: Allocating addresses across routers

[Evan Wetstone <[e-mail]>]

If you have cisco routers, you can use the "ip helper-address" command
which will forward a BOOTP broadcast request via unicast to the DHCP 
server defined in the ip helper-address command.

Other routers may have similar features, but I don't know the syntax.

--
Evan


> 
> 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
> 
>