wanted to create DHCP Scopes

[Aslamvs]

Hi All,


I want to a starge thing in DHCP i have created 3 scopes in DHCP. And i have got 3 different departments in my organisation. And i wanna allocate these three scopes to three departments. And i don't wana use reservations. Is there any other way to allocate the scopes to these departments.

Thanks in advance........... Aslam

 

[GrnEyedLdy]

Aslamvs,

I am assuming that you have three different subnets seperated by 1542 compliant routers, and only one machine running DHCP. If this is the case,

The DHCP server receiving the request can identify the clients point of origin to determine which scope to apply to it's request.

According to Minasi,

http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/172/01/9.html

"A bootp forwarding-enabled router retransmits (forwards) a DHCP discover broadcast. But when this router forwards the broadcast, it adds a note saying, “To anyone who hears this: This is a broadcast that I originally found on a different subnet, subnet x.y.z.a.” Then, when a DHCP server receives a broadcast that was retransmitted over one or more routers, the server knows which subnet to direct the response back to and which scope to pull a number from for its offer".

Hope this helps,

Patty