Just monitor an IP through the VPN?

Josh Luthman
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On Nov 22, 2015 9:01 PM, "Tyler Treat" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think it's somewhere between what you wrote, and they don't trust the
> crappy temp cable connection over there at the site.
> They say what if the VPN goes down - users won't be able to get ips if a
> machine reboots!
> I say, what the hell are they going to be doing anyways if the VPN goes
> down?
> [ Drops mic, stomps off. ]
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> On Nov 22, 2015, at 7:37 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think your admins dont understand what dhcp relay is, im guessing they
> thing the relay is a weird way of saying its a l2 tunnel for dhcp or some
> dumb shit. other than the loss of dhcp when the vpn is down, relay would be
> the preferred way to do it. I dont know how mikrotik works with secondary
> relays, but you could configure the primary to point to the AD DHCP server,
> and the second being on a virtual interface of the mikrotik, since its just
> relaying to itself.
> Go online and find a 6 pack of Jolt Cola, give that to the sysadmin, he
> will let you do what you want.
>
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Tyler Treat <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> Indeed, this is a corporate setup with Windows DHCP at the core.
>> This is a site on the remote end of a VPN.
>> The sysadmins were a bit on edge about sending DHCP across the VPN, so
>> they asked that we stick it local on the remote site Mikrotik
>> router....which works ok, though we hit a bit of a snag with the NAC, which
>> likes to sniff DHCP traffic to help detect and identify devices on the
>> segment, in addition to several other data sources.
>>
>> I may just nag the sysadmins to build this out in the core DHCP and this
>> will solve itself.
>> Just point DHCP Relay at both addresses and I think we'll be fine.
>>
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>> > On Nov 22, 2015, at 5:13 PM, Paul Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Have never seen that work on any platforms I work with ... Cisco/Juniper
>> > etc...
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of George Skorup
>> > Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2015 1:40 PM
>> > To: [email protected]
>> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] DHCP relay question
>> >
>> > MikroTik? So you're asking for an /ip dhcp-server and an /ip dhcp-relay
>> on
>> > the same interface? No idea if that will work, never tried it. You can
>> > certainly have multiple DHCP servers on the same broadcast domain.
>> > Never had to do that outside of a large corporate environment for
>> redundancy
>> > though, and that was just windows DHCP servers.
>> >
>> >> On 11/22/2015 11:38 AM, Tyler Treat wrote:
>> >> Have a question regarding dhcp relay function.
>> >> Say we have local dhcp configured at a remote site, yet we have a
>> network
>> > management tool that would like to see dhcp traffic for device detection
>> > purposes.
>> >> My question is this:   Is it possible for local dhcp to function, and
>> have
>> > dhcp relay pointing to our NAC to assist it in detecting devices?(the
>> NAC
>> > doesn't respond, just listens)
>> >>
>> >> Thoughts?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks
>> >> Tyler
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>> >> ___________________________
>> >>
>> >> Tyler Treat
>> >> Corn Belt Technologies, Inc.
>> >>
>> >> [email protected]
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>> >
>> >
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