configuring dhcp redundancy ?

Hi,

I need to run 2 x servers at the end of a vpn tunnel to provide high end
DHCP services levels.

Using windows 2003 server how can i get both these servers signing from the
same hym sheet so to speak ?

Thanks for any advice
Scoctt

"Scott" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to run 2 x servers at the end of a vpn tunnel to provide high end
> DHCP services levels.
>
> Using windows 2003 server how can i get both these servers signing from the
> same hym sheet so to speak ?
>
> Thanks for any advice
> Scoctt
>
>
>
Your description a bit unclear.

Are these servers:
(a) Running a LAN on another site, which you must administer via VPN?

(b) Providing file and app server for clients most (all?) of whom only have
VPN access to the site.

Where is your VPN tunnel terminating? In one of the servers using RRAS, or
in something like a Cisco firewall?
--
Regards,
Newell White

Hi Scott, seeing as you have 2 servers, go for MS Clustering (If you've got
Enterprise copies and SAN/NAS storage) as DHCP is cluster aware, and is very
easy to setup and manage and means you don't have to use the old 80/20 rule
and it is currently the configuration were using, which has been very stable
and worked perfectly when 1 of the active nodes had Rack power failure and
went offline as the passive node kicked in and carried on provding DHCP
within seconds and no human intervention was required.

Another option if you cannot use a cluster setup, would be to go with either
split scopes( and this requires careful planning on lease times etc) or go
with super scopes (W2K3/W2K8) which then span across both the nodes. Some
good articles and best practice guides available under technet on the Server
product pages for DHCP.
--
D3L3R1u5


"Scott" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to run 2 x servers at the end of a vpn tunnel to provide high end
> DHCP services levels.
>
> Using windows 2003 server how can i get both these servers signing from the
> same hym sheet so to speak ?
>
> Thanks for any advice
> Scoctt
>
>
>