From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo."  wrote in message
news:3e8cce33$2{at}w3.nls.net...
> > We have a pretty similar setup, with our main office and two other
> locations
> > in the same net, and we only have one DHCP server at the main office. I
> > don't know exactly how it's set up, but it does work pretty well (only
one
> > network card, too).
> >
> > It's about the only part of our whole system that just plain works ;-)
>
> I've never seen that type of setup, usually with remote locations the
> device that does the vpn also does dhcp. How would the dhcp server
> know to assign an address from scope1 for some machines and
> scope2 for others if it can't see the ethernet address of the machine
> making the request?

I really don't know this stuff, so I can't explain it. It just works, which
is cool because if it didn't then I'd be in trouble ;-)


Antti Kurenniemi

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