Re: DHCP Scopes

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I would think that the place to ask that question would be in an HP forum, not this one.

"Glenn" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OqsPEw4aJHA.3748@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So, if I just had a Windows Server acting as DHCP plugged into an HP ProCurve Switch, and I plugged a computer into the switch it would get an IP from the DHCP server (no router present, unless the switch is acting as a router).

If I want to add another scope for a second VLAN, do I need to have a router present? Or is there a way to program the ProCurve to do it?

Thanks.
"Phillip Windell" <philwindell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uhrpfQraJHA.3548@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Glenn" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OGnse0qaJHA.4288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
But I sitll don't get the connection.

I could create 100 Vlans and 100 Scopes.

How does the DHCP server know that something from VLAN # 3 should given an address from Scope # 57 for instance?

That is a combination of the Router forwarding the queries to the DHCP Server and the way the DHCP Service "handles" the forwarded queries. That has been one of a LAN Router's "jobs" since TCP/IP was invented. The router may include additional information in the forwarded query that the DHCP Service uses,...I don't know for sure,....but it "just works". There is nothing special that you have to configure beyond setting the router to forward the queries..

....and, before you ask or think about it,....No SuperScopes!!!,....use just normal, regular, "nothing special" Scopes for each subnet.

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