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I have 4 NW 4.11 servers with SP9 loaded. They are all connected to the school district’s primary backbone. From the backbone, a branch is made to each campus. Each campus(branch) has its own class B IP range and is served by one of the 4 servers. I have another NW4SP9 server sitting next to the rest on the backbone that is acting as our district’s master DNS, with the campus servers each holding a replica dB.
I would like to use DHCP (hopefully installing it //only// on a single machine) to manage my 5 class B campuses. But, I still want each campus to stay within “their” ip range. (The primary school in 10.173.x.x while the high school is all contained in 10.177.x.x)
How do I set this up. I’ve turned on DHCP and set up the DHCP subnets for each campus (ex. 10.173.0.0 w/ 255.255.0.0 for the primary) but when I check my IP assignments, they are all being dished out from the high school’s ip pool, no matter where the workstation is. So, how do i seperate the physical segments of the network so that they are given different network segments?
Thanks,
Ruscal
I think that what you want to do is subnet your network. I am not an expert on this, but it should involve setting the subnet mask for each branch to something like 255.128.0.0 (or 255.192.0.0 depending on what split you want) to chop your domain into different sub-nets. Though it looks like you know a lot of this material already, I found Daryl’s TCPIP primer a good starting point. If the url below doesn’t work, try http://www.ipprimer.com/routing.cfm
Once you’ve designed your subnets, you’d set each branch server to the right subnet mask, probably through DHCP, and set the correct ranges of IP address available to each net.
Of course, I could also be wrong.
Hope this helps.