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Title: Multiple DHCP Servers
Post by: Rick on July 28, 2001, 09:35:51 PM

I am currently working on a large project that uses a wireless backbone to hop from a Highschool to a middle school to an elementry school .... maximum users exceed 400.They have a T3 at the high school that they don't pay for.( Must be nice) I really don't want more than 100 people per E-Smith Unit ... but I want DHCP for everyone. Can I setup 5 servers & can those 5 servers each have DHCP enabled ?
I thought about using static ip's on the servers & using WIN2000 A/S to setup the ip's using the multi DHCP QOS System .... but that seems like too much of a headache for such a simple task ..... any ideas?

Rick

Title: Re: Multiple DHCP Servers
Post by: Dan Brown on July 28, 2001, 09:55:35 PM

It seems that, for the cost of 5 individual servers, you could have one very capable server (and plenty of money to spare), which would handle your requirements.  This would almost certainly be the simplest solution.

If you really want to use 5 separate servers, it should be possible, but only if each one is on its own segment of the network.  If they're all on the same part of the network, all 5 will try to respond to each DHCP request, which would be a Very Bad Thing (tm).