Re: Anyone Make an Off the Shelf DHCP Proxy NAT / Firewall?

How is a VPN going to solve a DHCP presentation problem? DHCP is below IP
on the protocol stack.

VPN seems like a lot of work to solve a very simple problem. What are the
requirements for VPN to just solve a DHCP issue?

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Will
"Volker Birk" <bumens@dingens.org> wrote in message
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> Will <DELETE_westes@earthbroadcast.com> wrote:
> > I'm looking for a commodity small LAN firewall / NAT box that would
support
> > a DHCP proxy feature on its *external* interface, and then send those
DHCP
> > requests to a specific host behind the arp.
> > My application is that I have a Windows 2003 domain controller that I
would
> > like to have act as a DHCP server for the computers in its domain.   The
> > clients would be in front of a firewall / NAT and the domain controller
> > would be behind the firwall / NAT.   I want to find an NAT that would
> > present a DHCP proxy on its external interface and send those requests
to
> > the domain controller.
>
> This is not a good idea. Better use a VPN.
>
> Yours,
> VB.
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