IP address range

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> Lets say a relay agent is sitting on 10.31.3.10 and we want to issue
> 172.16.0.0/16 addresses to all clients requesting an IP, how would one
> set that up. We can assume that the dhcp server is on 10.31.3.1
> 
> if i put in the following:
> subnet 172.16.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {

--->>  option routers 10.31.3.10;

>      pool {
>         range 172.16.0.1 172.16.255.254
>      }
> }
> 
> then when I get the relayd req from 3.10 then dhcp says there is no
> network configured for 3.10 (unknown network segment).

Insert the line with "option routers 10.31.3.10" and you're in
business.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no