hello,
assume a B class network eg. 10.1.0.0/16, if you want to provide dhcp service for diffferent ranges inside this network (eg 10.1.1.0 for servers and 10.1.2.0 for printers) you have to assign the whole range and then spare out all exept the wanted ranges. but this too is very hard to read if you have 15 or more ranges overall.
to keep dhcp ranges and leases read- and usable we had the idea to create different ranges on the dhcp server with /24 mask (because in the /16 range no second range is possible), this way the config keeps transparent but the server wont serve leases to any client, i guess because it not his real subnet (the dhcp server itself got an address eg 10.1.1.1/16).
is there a way to get this working, maybe by assigning ip addresses to the server in each subnet? while i would hope there would be another way than this dirty trick?
regards
peet