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IBM DHCP Server Configuration Program Help

Subnet Order Tab

Use this notebook tab to specify the order and priority in which IP addresses are served from a group of subnets on the same wire.

Fields and other settings include:

Subnet pool order
Provides a list box of subnets that you can arrange in priority order. Click an address pool in the list and click Move Up or Move Down to relocate the subnet in the priority of service. Subnets higher in the list serve addresses before subnets lower in the list.

Address assignment
Determines whether IP addresses are served in order, or on a round-robin basis.

Fields and other settings include:

In order
Check this box to have the DHCP server provide IP addresses from the first address pool in the list, exhausting the first group's IP address range before serving IP addresses from the next address pool in the list (inOrder keyword).

Round robin
Check this box to have the DHCP server provide the first IP address from the address pool at the top of the pool priority list, the next IP address from the next lower-priority pool in the list (in a round-robin sequence), repeating the cycle until addresses are exhausted equally from all address pools (balance keyword).


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