I was using primary/secondary as an example, but my understanding is that
whichever answers first, that's the answer.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: DHCP understanding

On Feb 19, 2008 12:40 PM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> PCs seem to quit after not being able to get an address from
> the full primary server.

  There's nothing in the protocol about "primary" or "secondary"
servers, or any kind of redundancy.  DHCP servers are all peers.

  It's possible for a DHCP server implementation to implement failover
mechanisms themselves, but the clients are not aware of this, to the
best of my knowledge.  I don't think MSFT's DHCP implementation does
anything about this, either (short of running a full clustered server
config, I suppose).

-- Ben

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