IP address range

Glen R. J. Neff neff_glen at emc.com
Tue Jul 28 18:55:56 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 20:48 +0200, Jason Penton wrote:

>         
>         "Router" is routing between 172.16.something and
>         10.31.3.whatever?
> 
> Correct 
> 
>         
>         
>         Do you have a relay-agent with a 172.16.whatever address?  
> No 
> 
>         Does it have
>         a route to 10.31.3.10?
> yes 
> 
>         
>         
>         What is "Router?"
> router is a vendors' Huawei gateway (for all intents and purposes a
> router) It is receiving the DHCP broadcasts from the clients and
> unicasting them to 10.31.3.10

Well, then "Router" needs to have an IP on this 172.16.0.0/16 network
and it has to be acting as a relay-agent, configured to direct requests
to 10.31.3.10, then answer the clients on 10.31.3.10's behalf.

-G


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