[nycbug-talk] dhcp routes

[George Georgalis]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:22:18AM -0700, pete wright wrote:
>On Apr 5, 2005 9:51 AM, George Georgalis <george at galis.org> wrote:
>> Is there a way to send out some static routes in dhcp along with a
>> default gw?
>
>check out dhcpd-options(5)
>
>there is a section on:
>option static-route

Thanks, that was a hard find, but:

          Also, please note that this option is not intended for classless  IP
          routing  -  it  does not include a subnet mask.   Since classless IP
          routing is now the  most  widely  deployed  routing  standard,  this
          option  is  virtually  useless, and is not implemented by any of the
          popular DHCP clients, for example the Microsoft DHCP client.

...I guess people don't use vpn devices accept also as their gateway. so
with a separate gateway, things like a network printer MUST be driven
from a local subnet host, not via a vpn remote network. will probably
add a classless route to a host local to the printer and configure that
host to print locally (for remote vpn clients).

// George


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