What Is a DHCP Relay Agent?

            DHCP Use IP broadcast start Communications. Thus, DHCP server their communication is limited to the range of IP Subnet. This means that in many networks, with for each IP subnet DHCP server. If there is a number of subnets, which can be expensive Deployment server for each subnet. Single Power set DHCP server service smaller subnets.

            For a DHCP server to respond When the DHCP client requests, it must be able to receive DHCP request.

            You can enable it by configuring in each subnet DHCP relay agent. A DHCP a relay agent is a router or a computer monitor The DHCP client DHCP broadcast, and then forwards them to a different subnet DHCP server.

            With the DHCP relay agent, DHCP broadcast packets can be transferred to another IP subnet through a router. Then, you can configure the subnet IP address the needs of the DHCP relay agent. In addition, you can configure the proxy IP address of the DHCP server. Agents can then Get client broadcasts, and pass them to another subnet DHCP server.