multiple pools in shared networks

Aaron Thompson athompson at mac.com
Mon Aug 21 18:14:15 UTC 2006


I might be missing something but by doing this doesn't it double the  
amount of broadcast traffic? Wouldn't it be better to split it  
virtually/ip helper address and just keep them as separate subnets?

On Aug 21, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Jeff Wieland wrote:

> We have a need to add a space to an already filled network, so we
> were considering setting up a shared network to run over the same
> physical network as the original pool.  Something along the lines of
>
> shared-network big-network {
> 	subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> 		authoritative;
> 		option routers 192.168.0.1;
> 		pool {
> 			range 192.168.0.10 192.168.0.250;
> 		}
> 	}
> 	subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> 		authoritative;
> 		option routers 192.168.1.1;
> 		pool {
> 			range 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.250;
> 		}
> 	}
> }
>
> Will this be able to allocate IP's from both ranges?
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