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For fault isolation, its better to have separate local dhcp servers.
Its better not to put all your eggs in one basket. Besides, you're
probably paying a pretty penny for those leased lines (or at least the
school is) so you probably want to get the most out of them. Putting
your DHCP negotiations and renewals out on those links is unnecessary
and wasteful if you can set up local DHCP servers, instead.
Plus, its probably not a good idea to trust the health of the LAN's to
the health of the WAN unless you have as much control over the entire
WAN circuit as you have with your LAN's - even then it sounds a little
suspect. After all, if the WAN link from the server to the remote
location goes down, then DHCP clients on the remote LAN may not be able
to talk to each other much less the rest of the site until that link
comes back up and they can negotiate an address.
just my $.02,
Matthew
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Jeff Soulliere wrote:
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> Hi
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> I need to setup dhcp across my network and I would like your opinions on
> using it with the following configuration. I currently use 10 class c's
> across 7 locations serving 2000 nodes. They are connected together via
> Cisco routers and T1 frame circuits. I have a Digital Alpha 2000 Server
> running Digital Unix 4.0d at the center location. I would like to
> distribute a private ip network internally and let my Cisco PIX box handle
> proxy ip services out to the internet. Is it a better idea to install your
> DHCP server on that one Alpha server for the entire network or install a
> small Linux server with your DHCP server at each location?
>
> Please advise and thanks in advance.
>
> Jeff Soulliere
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> Central Community College
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