Sign in with
Sign up | Sign in
Your question

Two DHCP servers behaviour

Tags:
  • IP
  • Active Directory
  • Servers
  • DHCP
  • Windows
Last response: in Windows 2000/NT
Share
Anonymous
April 9, 2005 6:59:02 AM

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory (More info?)

It is true that we can implement two DHCP Servers in a single Domain or
workgroup but i cannot understand that how client will unserstand to get IP
from which server.If 2 servers are alive then how will they distribute IP?

Thanks in advance.

More about : dhcp servers behaviour

Anonymous
April 9, 2005 10:16:25 AM

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory (More info?)

"Ali Paracha" <AliParacha@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2C091645-145C-4654-979B-D30148B46704@microsoft.com...
> It is true that we can implement two DHCP Servers in a single Domain or
> workgroup

Sure.

In fact DHCP is unrelated to workgroups or domains.

Except that the Win2000/2003 DHCP can be required to
be authorized in a domain environment and may be handing
out thinks such as the client DNS name (suffix.)

> but i cannot understand that how client will unserstand to get IP
> from which server.If 2 servers are alive then how will they distribute IP?

Whichever one answers first usually.

DHCP servers and clients are promiscuous.

The clients broadcast for ANY DHCP server and
the DHCP servers ALL offer an address if they have
one available.

It is possible for servers to provide a reserved address
to a client based on NIC-MAC address but that is almost
the only control.

Neither domain membership of the clients, operating system,
nor pretty much anything else restricts DHCP by identity.

The only real DHCP restrictions are the limited feature of
authorization and the scope of the client broadcasts -- which
are not transmitted across routers by default. (See also:
BootP forwarding and DHCP relay agents.)
!