>>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>>news:vl4n8v4649ikgrn72onn5obk7ah8r9aavt{at}4ax.com...
>>
>>> One server can handle multiple subnets if the routers connecting those
>>> NICs are configured to forward DHCP broadcasts to the subnet on which
>>> the DHCP server is located.  Configure the DHCP server with a scope
>>> for each subnet for which it will be supplying addresses.
>>
>>I don't understand how that would work, how would the dhcp server know who's
>>asking for the address since any packet that comes thru the router is going
>>to have the ethernet address of the router interface for the dhcp servers
>>local segment?

 JC> I know it works, because I do it here.

 JC> The DHCP request packet carries the subnet of the requesting
 JC> system as part of its data structure.  All the router does is
 JC> relay (hence the term BootP Relay Agent) the request broadcast
 JC> to the appropriate subnet or server.

hummm... on my nets, the subnets all carry a subnet mask of
255.255.255.0... all of them... now what?

)\/(ark