Re: DHCP-Relay and ip bootp server

From: Hansang Bae (hbae@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 15:47:58 GMT-3


   
At 05:26 PM 11/11/2001 -0500, CCIE Candidate wrote:
>Hi Everyone:
>
>I had a scenario when i configured router to forward
>DHCP requests to DHCP server using "ip helper-address"
>command, but it didn't work unless I enabled bootp
>server services on router (ip bootp server).
>Can somebody throw some light why this command is
>needed for DHCP relay function ?

It works w/o turning the router into a bootp server. Does your DHCP
server have a scope for the new subnet?

hsb



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