Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Slightly OT: DHCPD and 802.1q trunk

[Serge L. <fi...@in...>]

Hi,

Frank Weis wrote:

> I wonder if it is possible to have a trunked port, let's say vlan10 and vlan20 
> on the same NIC, and have dhcpd distribute different address pools to clients 
> in the vlans? The vlan-tag is certainly stripped off the packet before it is 
> passed to dhcpd, so dhcpd has no way of knowing which vlan the request came 
> from.
Correct, but if your vlans have different ip addressing schemes (I mean they are
in different networks) you can just define 2 subnets in dhcpd.conf

As far as I know dhcpd will serve the network from which it gets a request.

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Sincerely,
Serge Leschinsky