DHCP Config Win2k + Cisco IP Helper

[Richard Blears]

Help,

this is probably dead simple but I am having a bad day.
I have a multiple site config.

DHCP on central site and at the remote sites.

I want to just use the DHCP server at the central site to serv
requests to the client machines at the remote sites.
I want to use the Cisco routers to provide IP Helper facilities to
forward the DHCP requests to the central DHCP server.

How do I configure the DHCP server to server different IP requests to
the remote sites?

The domain is Windows 2000 mixed mode?

Thanks for any help.

Richard.

 

[Guest]

Easy. Just make the DHCP zones you need for the remote sites (10.10.1.0,
10.10.2.0, or whatever), then configure all the routers that will have DHCP
clients on them to forward DHCP packets to your DHCP server. If you are on
newer Cisco routers (IOS 12 and up I believe supports this directly), just
issue the command "ip helper-address x.x.x.x" on each interface that recieves
client DHCP requests. I've done this before with about 100 subnets...just
more time consuming then anything else.

Hope I Helped,
--Brian

 

[Richard Blears]

Brian,

Thanks for the help. Also found a very useful article at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=120932 which explains how the
process works using the helper or dhcp relay agent.

Thanks again

Richard.