DHCP Giving Out IP For Wrong Subnet
Asai
asai at globalchangemusic.org
Mon Dec 16 18:07:41 UTC 2013
> There’s your problem. Don’t use interface aliases (multiple VLANs on one physical interface) with a DHCP server — it gets confused. The DHCP server somewhat bypasses the operating system IP stack for local clients.
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> Instead, you should connect all of these VLANs to a switch or router and then use a DHCP relay, per VLAN, to relay these requests to the single address of the DHCP server.
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Thanks, Chris. That makes sense. In this situation, the DHCP server is
on the router (Vyatta) which is hosting the VLANS. I have a couple of
options here, but I will probably go ahead and roll out a separate DHCP
server that is not on this router.
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