Sure there will be confusion. The broadcast depends on the application, if the application knows about the DHCP server address, then there will be no broadcast packets. One DHCP server per subnet is good.
For what purpose you are going for another DHCP sever in the same subnet ? Thanks, Muthu On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Vijay Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > There is already a Win2k DHCP Server running for a particular private subnet > : 192.168.0.x > Can I run another Linux server as a DHCP Server ? Since these services > generate a lot of bcast packets, > will it not create and confusion/congession in the network ? > > Just wanted to try out the config for DHCP.. so should I try it with same > subnet or different subnet > or try it at all in the same network ? > > Regards, > Vijay. > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware > With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. > WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the > same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
