Superscopes on Server 2003

[karmacop]

Hi Guys

For whatever reason, i need to configure a superscope on a DHCP server to provide IP addresses in a multinet (multiple subnets on same physical segment) scenario.

What i need to know, is how the addresses are sereved. I beleive it is as follow:

(This is a theoretical scenario)
I have 2 pools
pool1 serves IPs 192.168.1.1-10
pool2 serves IPs 192.168.2.1-10

I would have thought that the client would request a lease and the server would assign the first available IP from pool1 and that once the IPs from pool1 are exhausted, it would start serving from pool2?

If this is idea is wrong, could someone please explain exactly how the DHCP server determines which pool of IP's to use when assigning addresses to a client?

Regards

Josh

 

[ILW]

If that's not working for you, what you could do is define a scope for 192.168.1.1 through to 192.168.2.10 and then exclude 192.168.1.11-192.168.2.0

This works for us - we're actually serving out 2 contiguous class C ranges, but we like to keep .1-.20 of each for servers, printers, etc, but the principle is exactly the same.

Enjoy

Ian