DHCP Superscopes

[NewBeee]

Be gentle, I don't know a whole lot.

The way I understood basic networking was, a single physical segment had one subnet ID with one subnet mask and one default gateway. And the def gateway had to have an IP in the same subnet ID as the rest of the IPs on the segment.

Reading up on superscopes has confused the living daylights out of me. It seems like you can have two separate subnet IDs on the same segment, how is that possible ? That segment only has one default gateway, correct? So how can that default gateway serve two different IP subnets?

 

[Lassiter]

A physical network that utilizes two or more subnets is called a multinet.

The superscope will have a different Default Gateway for each subnet. A router configured with multiple ip addresses will be used to route between the subnets on the segment.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...server/help/sag_DHCP_imp_UsingSuperscopes.htm

This link gives a high level overview of Superscopes.

I hope this helps.

 

[NewBeee]

Lassiter thanks a lot !!! That was an outstanding link and will be bookmarked. Thanks again.