Purpose of pools
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I noticed that the DHCP server has the ability to manage multiple dynamic IP pools, that are subsets of the subnet.
In practice, these pools are unnamed. I don't see any support for assigning specific devices to one dynamic pool or the other. I also am not aware of any other support for these pools for any logical purpose, besides their definitions. Am I missing something ?
And if not, what purpose do these separate pools serve ? Is it only to allow for non-contiguous IP address ranges for dynamic leases ?
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@madbrain you can use the 'MAC Address Control' - which can be set per pool - to assign specific MAC/clients to a particular DHCP pool.
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@madbrain said in Purpose of pools:
Is it only to allow for non-contiguous IP address ranges for dynamic leases ?
Not only no but that could well be one option for a much larger subnet (although that does seem rather haphazard). It's perhaps more commonly used to further segregate a predefined subnet to allow/disallow certain devices to use predetermined portions of the pool.
