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How not to use DHCP Superscopes

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Have you ever needed to run several separate subnets on the same physical network (not VLANs) to use different routers?? A good example of this is a single Wireless network where you want to run more than 243 devices but you don’t want the overhead of a Class B subnet.

Simply create your Class C address ranges, each in a separate DHCP scope. Then select all the new scopes and add them to a new superscope. Now when any clients from this network request addresses, they will be sent any address from the appropriate range. More information is in KB161571.

What you don’t do is use Superscopes to group several VLAN’s at a single site. That just breaks stuff. (Trust me)