DHCP Redundancy

We have 60 to 70 WAN sites and I wanted to see what other people were doing
for DHCP and redundancy. Are you just splitting them between the two or
what?

I use two redundant DHCP Servers. The Scopes are identically configured on
each,..but then I use Exclusions to split the available addresses so that
each server gives out half of them.


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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

"Jobe Gates" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> We have 60 to 70 WAN sites and I wanted to see what other people were
doing
> for DHCP and redundancy. Are you just splitting them between the two or
> what?
>
>

What do you do on your network equipment then? Add both servers for IP
Helper?
"Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message
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>I use two redundant DHCP Servers. The Scopes are identically configured on
> each,..but then I use Exclusions to split the available addresses so that
> each server gives out half of them.
>
>
> --
>
> Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
> www.wandtv.com
>
> "Jobe Gates" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> We have 60 to 70 WAN sites and I wanted to see what other people were
> doing
>> for DHCP and redundancy. Are you just splitting them between the two or
>> what?
>>
>>
>
>

Yes. Some equipment allows you to pass the queries to just a subnet instead
of a specific server as well. But, yes,ours has a "list" of DHCP Servers it
will pass the queries to. I don't know if it does it "round-robin" or if it
just always sends to both, or how it handles that internally, and I don't
know exactly how the DHCP Server avoid conflicts if they are both receiving
the requests,...however, it is most certainly working perfectly fine for us.

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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


"Jobe Gates" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:Oe%(E-Mail Removed)...
> What do you do on your network equipment then? Add both servers for IP
> Helper?
> "Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I use two redundant DHCP Servers. The Scopes are identically configured
on
> > each,..but then I use Exclusions to split the available addresses so
that
> > each server gives out half of them.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
> > www.wandtv.com
> >
> > "Jobe Gates" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> We have 60 to 70 WAN sites and I wanted to see what other people were
> > doing
> >> for DHCP and redundancy. Are you just splitting them between the two
or
> >> what?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>