RE: (PM) PM3 & DHCP

Ron Parker (rparker@gator1.brazosport.cc.tx.us)
Thu, 13 Nov 1997 16:04:43 -0600 (CST)

I believe they are describing a standard BOOTP relay agent type of
arrangement. They are allowing you to forward the BOOTP request across the
PortMaster to whatever device you use to serve these requests. That may be
several things including a DHCP server under Windows NT. The relay
function is a standard router feature in many other products from many
other vendors.

I think this feature is primarily intended for situations where you have a
remote network on the other end of the connection and you want to grab
addresses for the other machines on the network. I don't see how it would
work for assigning the addresses for normal dialup ports. 

--
Ron Parker
Network Communications Specialist
Brazosport College




On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Phil Taylor wrote:


> >From the ComOS 3.7.2 Release Notes, I assume that it relies on an actual
> DHCP request from the client, so I'm not sure if it is any use to you as
> you need the address to be assigned at the IPCP stage. To be honest it's
> not something I have ever looked at as our DHCP pool is on an entirely
> different network to our dial-in pool and we have enough problems
> forceing our DHCP server to release old addresses as it is so I really
> wouldn't want to use DHCP for dial-in assignments.
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