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Two DHCP servers, setup advice pls!

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Name: Jaydee
Date: May 2, 2004 at 05:47:09 Pacific
OS: Win XP
CPU/Ram: 2.8 Ghz
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Hello,

Here's my problem. Unil recently, I had a home network with a DHCP server on address 192.168.0.1 and all the other computers on the network automatically leased their IPs from this server, which also shared an internet connection across the whole network.

Now though, there are TWO internet connections on the network, so I need to run two servers and thus two DHCP servers. One DHCP server is on 192.168.0.1, and the other is on 192.168.1.1 I have set one lot of the machines to have IPs in the 192.168.0.* range and ther rest to have them in the 192.168.1.* range, each using the corresponding gateway to access the internet. But they cannot see each other on the network!

Please could you give me advice on some more appropriate network setting please?



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Name: briantech
Date: May 2, 2004 at 06:44:03 Pacific
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The first Q: I have before anyone can help you is:

1.) are these two diff subnet's sep by a router (192.168.0.1.. 192.168.1.0)

if you don't all you need is one DHCP server servering both subnets, there are many diff ways of doing this.. like having one DHCP with 2 nic's one on each subnet 192.168.0.0/24.. 192.168.1.0/24


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Response Number 2
Name: Jaydee
Date: May 2, 2004 at 07:03:50 Pacific
Reply:

Sorry, allow me to explain a bit more:

Imagine two houses. (This is the real life situation.) You've got one house using one internet connection, and the other using a different internet connection. There are three comps in each house. All six comps need to be networked together, but the computers need to only use teh internet conncetion in their own houses, not all use each others.

The internet connections are provided by two routers, on has an IP of 192.168.0.1, teh other has 192.168.1.1

This CAN be changed if you think there's a better way, because at the moment, teh computers do indeed use their own internet connections, but they can't communicate with each other. Is tehre a subnet mask that would allow this communication?

Thankyou so much for your fast reply, please help me some more!


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Response Number 3
Name: xifuxiong
Date: May 6, 2004 at 06:34:45 Pacific
Reply:

What I would do is put each house on its own network (subnet) and in the 2 different routers, I would set up static routing to point the other network/house.


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