[c-nsp] DHCP with superscopes

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Fri Oct 14 03:27:33 EDT 2011


On 10/14/2011 12:55 AM, Srikanth Tallapragada wrote:
> I have a requirement where I need DHCP working for secondary IP address
> configured on a SVI.We have the both the subnets configured as superscope on
> DHCP server.And i have following configs on my nexus switches which are
> running VRRP.The DHCP server is in same vlan (On primary IP address
> network).The server is not dishing out IP's on secondary subnet.Is there
> anything else i need to do to make it work?
> I know DHCP usually won't work with secondary IP address, but I thought
> superscope will fix that problem.

This is not really a Cisco question; it's down to your DHCP server, 
about which you gave no details.

It should work in theory; one thing you might try is moving the DHCP 
server to a different subnet and forwarding the DHCP requests.


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