Re: CISCO PIX 501 and DHCP on outside port

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> Hello,
>
> I have an interesting problem I would like to solve and I hope someone
> her can assist me.
>
> I have a CISCO PIX 501 firewall unit. This particular unit supports
> giving out DHCP leases on its outside (public) port.
>
> I connected a worksation to the outside subnet and was able to recive
> a public ip address that I defined on the PIX. The problem I ma
> encountering is that I cannot specify a gateway - it only provides the
> ip of the PIX for the gateway.
>
> Does anyone know how I can get the correct (different gateway, not the
> PIX as a gateway) ip address assigned ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
> budman@generation.net

Hi,

As far as I know (pretty little and outdated information about PIXes) there
is no way to assign a different gateway (sounds logical since if you were to
assign a different gateway for the hosts they would not get "firewalled")

You can always proxy the DHCP requests to another DHCP Server.

Regards,
Gabriele