DHCP Server Configuration/User/Vendor Classes

I'm unable to find any informaiton on how to configure the DHCP server
and/or the DHCP client (WinXP) to choose a specific DHCP scope or Address
Pool. I need certain hardware to get assigned a certain range of IPs from
the DHCP server. I figured I could do this with a user class, but this only
gives me dhcp options specific to a scope, it does not allow me to pick a
scope or an address pool. Also, there's no option to create another address
pool within a scope, so I'm not sure where to go with this. I don't want to
do reservations as this would get crazy to manage with multiple subnets and
servers and hundreds of MAC addresses.

Is what I want to do possible with the software I've got?
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GCS Tech

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> I'm unable to find any informaiton on how to configure the DHCP server
> and/or the DHCP client (WinXP) to choose a specific DHCP scope or Address
> Pool.

You don't
It is based on the physical or logical (VLAN) segment the DHCP request comes
from.
A Scope is associated with a particular IP segment. A single Scope should
cover a whole single TCP/IP segment. Once Scope <--per--> One Segment.
Scopes are not associated with "hosts" on the segments.

> I need certain hardware to get assigned a certain range of IPs from the
> DHCP server.

Then statically assign them and forget it. Not everything is supposed to be
using DHCP. Servers in particular should never use DHCP,...not even with
Reservations,...Reservations still make them dependent on DHCP and that
should never be. Servers, network devices, and any other "important"
machines should never depend on DHCP to be able to exist,..they need to
exist and function even if the DHCP fell over dead one morning. DHCP should
only be for user's workstations and *non-critical* servers & network
devices.

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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com