DHCP Authentication

[Glenn Satchell]

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>Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:40:00 -0400
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>Subject: Re: DHCP Authentication
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>On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 11:53:49AM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote:
>> 	[...] ~40 of this
>> 	pool {
>>                 # test east wing
>>                 allow members of "east-wing-22";
>>                 range 10.30.24.101 10.30.24.199;
>>                 option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>>                 option broadcast-address 10.30.24.255;
>>         }
>> }
>> 
>> The foreign switches (level 3) will do the proper routing, 1 different subnet 
>> per "wing", MACs 00:0x:0x are mangled by me.
>
>44 subnets?  How do you expect foreign layer-3 switches (a.k.a. 
>routers) to know how to route the subnets that you configure on your 
>embedded DHCP server?
>
If you have 44 subnets, then you need to define all of these in
dhcpd.conf. If your network is separate networks then it doesn't match
your config which was 10.34/16 - that's a single flat network.
dhcpd.conf must describe the real network topology.

regards,
-glenn