On 21 Jul 2003, Shantanu Kumar wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 S.Muthukumar wrote : > > > >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 think you got confused here, if the client has the DHCP server address, then it sends and arp query to get the dhcp server mac address and sends the packet directly and while dhcp server is replying to the client, it knows the mac address of the client from the request packet and sends the packet directly, so there is no broadcast involved eventhough the client has not got the IP :-) Thanks, Muthu > > 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. > > > > ___________________________________________________ > Download the hottest & happening ringtones here! > OR SMS: Top tone to 7333 > Click here now: > http://sms.rediff.com/cgi-bin/ringtone/ringhome.pl > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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
