Real reason for DHCP superscopes

Hey everyone! I am trying to figure out the value of DHCP superscopes
and I know I am running into a mental block.

I totally understand what the intentions are, concerning multinets. I
also understand when they are NOT needed (ie scopes per subnet with ip
helper/boot relay on routers).

Well lets say we have a 192.168.1.x network and we are running out of
ip's so we decided to add another network 192.168.2.x to give some more
ips.

So according to MS I make my nifty superscope and add both of those
scopes to this scope. Great, but so what? Here is the crux of the
issue why would a superscope really be needed. Couldn't I just leave
the two scopes as independent scopes. They would both service the same
broadcast network, right?

I know I am missing one small piece of this puzzle, so any
enlightenment would be greatly appreciated. My problem is that I think
I am trying to read more into the superscope technology.

Thanks again for everyone's time.

.

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