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.
>
> 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.
>
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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