Without some additional configuration and the proper equipment, you
can't pass DHCP across routers (or routing firewalls). DHCP uses MAC
layer broadcasting, which basically means you can't send DHCP requests
beyond the local network.
With additional equipment, such as a router that can be a "DHCP helper",
you can turn the MAC broadcast into an IP layer unicast packet. If you
then encrypted it and sent it thru the VPN tunnel, it could work. I've
never tried this, though, so I don't know if your average Cisco running
IOS (or a stripped-down OS for a SOHO router) does this right. But I'm
pretty sure PIX does NOT offer DHCP helper functionality. So unless you
put a router between the remote clients and the remote PIX, I think
you're stuck.
Michael
ivan lopez wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Is it possible to have a remote network to get dhcp address from a Central
> Site through a VPN connection?
>
> I would be using a Pix to Pix VPN for this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ivan
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