finding remote MAC address
pll at lanminds.com
pll at lanminds.com
Tue Apr 29 11:56:25 EDT 2003
In a message dated: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:40:33 EDT
Michael O'Donnell said:
>If he's just concerned with DHCP, though, isn't likely that the
>addrs in questions will be on the same subnet. Unless they're
>doing something like DHCP proxy, maybe...
Most DHCP environments are across subnets using DHCP relay at the
router level. It's just far more convenient to have 1 central system
doing DHCP rather than a different host on each network.
Of course, he *could* do the same thing with a multi-homed system,
but once you get past 3 or 4 subnets, that becomes impractical given
the limited number of PCI slots in a system. Of course, a single
switch which supports VLANS and a little IP aliasing on the host can
also solve that problem.
Wow, the more I think about it, the more ways I can come up with to
server DHCP than I ever really cared about before :)
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