Author: Tony Whitmore Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Windows 2003 Server DHCP not responding
torequests from same VLAN
James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > The ethernet IP address of the DHCP server has to be in the same
> subnet as the IP addresses being given out.
> So check that your VLAN1 scope is in the same subnet as you DHCP
> servers's ip address.
>
> The only exception to this is if the DHCP requests are going via a
> DHCP/BOOTP relay.
Thanks James, that's an interesting wrinkle which occured to me in the
small hours this morning! I suspect it's the cause of the problem and
suggests a couple of solutions too.