DHCP from Frame Relay???

[silvere]

I'll try to explain this. Please let me know if you need further explanation.

At our central location we have a Cisco 3600. We connect our Branches 17, 1, and 29 through a frame relay. At each branch we have a Cisco 1700 router. The individual computers are set up with static IP address. The C.I.O. believes that it is necessary to use static IP addresses because of the frame relay.

My question is this; please tell me if I'm wrong. We can use DHCP on these individual computers because they are connecting to the frame relay through the Cisco 1700, right?

thanks!
Andy

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[nelifecare]

I believe this is the wrong forum to post in for this type of issue.

You'll either need a DHCP server on each subnet or you'll need to allow broadcasts across the frame so the DHCP client can find the DHCP server. Not sure what port number is needed to handle the broadcast. By default, routers do not allow broadcasting.

 

[ascotta]

Or a DHCP relay agent, and yes this is the wrong forum.

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Scott

 

[dheida]

I don't know if you reposted in the correct forum but I'm sure the Cisco 1700 router can be configured to hand out DHCP. We do the same thing across several of our frames; clients are DHCP and printers, etc are static. They aren't on the same subnet (we don't have room anyway) but that's why you have routers.