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.
Well, I guess there won't be any confusion as long as the IP-ranges and leases are
well defined. DHCP uses broadcasting because the client doesn't have an IP
address. If both parties have known IP addresses, they don't need broadcasting,
do they? :-)
I have practically had two DHCP servers, one running Win2K AS, another RH7.1
and had no problems at all. But found Win2K's DHCP server daemon to be
responding slow in some cases -- dunno why. Nevertheless, one DHCP server per
subnet is a good enough policy. But if there's a need to have more, I don't think
there's any adventure to tackle.
Regards, Shantanu
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.
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