problem with dhcp server behind dhcprelay

Sebastian Reitenbach sebastia at l00-bugdead-prods.de
Sun Aug 3 06:28:13 UTC 2008


Hi Chuck,

dhcp-users at isc.org wrote: 
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 08:29:19PM +0200, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> > I want to move the DHCP server into a single lan, and let the clients 
have 
> > to contact it via a dhcp relay.
> > 
> > On the relay host, the dhcrelay is started like this:
> > 
> > /usr/sbin/dhcrelay -a -i eth0 -i eth1 -i vlan3 -i vlan30 -i vlan8 -i 
> > vlan13 -i vlan25 192.168.0.5
> 
> 1. Don't use a shared-network statement, because your subnets are 
> actually on separate LANs/VLANs.
> 
> 2. All host statements are treated as global in nature, regardless of 
> where you define them.  Move them to global scope in your config file 
> to reduce confusion.
> 
> 3. You aren't using classes correctly, nor do you need them to do what 
> you want. You don't need classes at all to simply match the subnet 
> from which a request was relayed.  That is automatic behavior.
> 
> So this should work:
> 
you saved me the day, your example works perfectly. 

sometimes the things are easier than someone can think of ;)

thanks a lot
Sebastian



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