[Cialug] DHCP Question

[Nathan C. Smith]

The other range isn't off a router you can run DHCP relay through?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: kristau [mailto:kristau at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:10 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] DHCP Question
> 
> 
> Although this is specifically a Windows DHCP implementation, 
> I suppose the answer will apply to DHCP in general. . .
> 
> We have an existing DHCP scope with the following characteristics:
>   Range: 192.168.0.1 through 0.240
>   Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 (aka /24)
> 
> I want to set up a second scope in the .1.x range and extend 
> the subnet mask so that both ranges can "talk."  I'm pretty 
> sure simply changing the subnet to 255.255.254.0 (aka /23) 
> for both ranges will do the trick, making the entire address 
> space from 0.1 through 1.254 available.  Just looking for 
> another couple of brains to review and let me know what I missed.
> 
> Can you think of any gotchas with this setup?  It is 
> definitely a kludge until I get time to re-work our DHCP and 
> most of the rest of our network, but I want to make sure we 
> don't run out of address space in the short term.
> 
> TIA,
> kristau
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