[c-nsp] Weird DHCP like service required - anyone?

[Lincoln Dale (ltd)]

Skeeve,

> 	I have a network with some 40 Cisco 1811's in it.  I want to run
> DHCP, but I want to run it centrally.
> 
> 	Each 1811 might be serving 100-500 clients. so a /24 or /23 will
> most likely do (with possible for expansion).
> 
> 	While this will be DHCP assigned, it will be from static
assignments
> based on each persons MAC address.
> 
> 	So, thousand of users, going into their respective 1811, the
1811 ip
> dhcp helper forwarding the request to a Linux box.

"ip helper-address".

IOS has done this for at least 8 years.  probably closer to 12 years.
or more.  IOS 10.0 introduced this.
 

cheers,

lincoln.