DHCP "issues" - URGENT

[Arxitektwn]

Hi everyone,

have the following scenario at the moment:

LAN1 ------- Router1 ------------Router2 ------------LAN2

LAN1 has 20 win2000 machines running 2000 and getting IP addresses from a
DHCP server on LAN1. LAN2 has 10 machines that "used" to get DHCP from the
server on LAN1. We recently moved DHCP from one server to another Win2k
boxes and now the machines on LAN2 cannot take IP addresses from the new
server any more.

There is full IP connectivity (ping both ways, DNS works both ways) but when
I IPCONFIG /release and /renew the machines on LAN2 get the 169.254...... IP
address. It used to work before so I know the routers allow broadcasts
through them (the solution has to come from DHCP config as we were never
allowed to touch the routers).

Any ideas will be more than welcome.

(on another note, I would like the DHCP server to issue addresses from more
than 1 scope to various "groups" of computers. Can this be achieved and if
yes, how?)

 

[Brian Oakes [MSFT]]

Do you routers support IPHelpers? If so, use these or use a dhcp relay
agent.

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Best regards,
Brian Oakes, MCSE
Microsoft Product Support
Windows 2000 Server Networking Team

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