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DHCP server for VLANs

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banalas

IS-IT--Management
May 23, 2001
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US
I Have created 2 VLANS in my network and i have VLAN1 default on my Cisco 6509
I created VLAN 305 (10.205.24.0/255.255.254.0)
VLAN 1 10.201.16.0/255/255.240.0
Routing Between VLANs working fine and if i use 6509 as my dhcp server for VLAN305 it works fine

But i am trying to use my existing DHCP server which is in VLAN1

i have the foling confoguration on My 6509
Int vlan305
10.205.25.1 255.255.254.0
Ip Helper-address 10.201.16.X

i am not able to get any address for my hosts in VLAn305
if i use a static address on VLAN305 and i can ping my dhcp server in VLAN1

Please Help

Thanks
Sridhar

 
When you separate your network into VLANs, you're doing the same thing as subnetting your network. The only way for the VLANs to communicate with each other, is to have a router in place to connect the separate networks(VLANs) together.
 
Maybe I should learn to read before posting. Is the router you are using RFC-1542 compliant? If it is not, then the router is not forwarding DHCP broadcast packets. An alternate solution is to setup a DHCP relay agent in your second subnet for proper DHCP communications.
 
Out of interest, does the DHCP pool available to vlan305 include 10.205.25.x and/or 10.205.26.x addresses?
 
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